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You might want to check your extensions. I know AdBlock+ is a very popular, common, RAM-hungry extension

• falcolas 12y ago
  I moved to a hosts file based ad blocking solution, which has worked well for me thus far. http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ But when you have youtube, gmail, and other web applications open, memory usage tends to go nuts. I've been told that it's technically impossible for a web application to have a memory leak, but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
  • Navarr 12y ago
    Whomever said that it's technically impossible for a web application to have a memory leak is a liar. I wrote a slightly-more-than-basic Angular.js app and it leaks like crazy up to the point that the Chrome tab will crash. If you're having serious ram problems in Chrome though, Shift-ESC is your friend. Shows you what exactly is consuming RAM (in the event you didn't already know)