They're both ridiculous. I know browsers are really feature-intensive nowadays, but really, 500mb for a few tabs? I think the story is that Firefox uses less,

They're both ridiculous. I know browsers are really feature-intensive nowadays, but really, 500mb for a few tabs? I think the story is that Firefox uses less, but because Chrome has an individual process for each tab they don't all die at once, and Chrome has a nicer about:memory page. I've tried using lighter browsers like Midori but can't get away from having 10+ extensions for various things.