I have been running aurora for a while so I already have this fix. I just tested it and there was no noticeable performance impact for the memory saved. Chrome

I have been running aurora for a while so I already have this fix. I just tested it and there was no noticeable performance impact for the memory saved. Chrome on the other hand used all my memory and caused me to start swapping. Any website with lots of images loaded will be impacted by this ( facebook , G+ , tumblr , ... ) so I think its a rather important change