A Thorough Study of Chromium Blink's Memory in Real-World Websites

_r5wf · on Oct 12, 2015

From https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/q5Q...

okasaki · on Oct 12, 2015

I get redirected to https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050 "Clear cache and cookies" when I click the link.

lbenes · on Oct 12, 2015

I'm happy to see Chome is finally taking memory usage seriously. There are some heavy HTML5 pages that my 1GB android tablet can't even handle with Chrome, but run fine under FF. There are still plenty of low-end smartphones sold today with 1GB or less of RAM.

Google should heed the lessons MS learned with IE. If they want people to keep the default browser, it needs to be competitive.

NickHaflinger · on Oct 12, 2015

Most of IE is part of the operating system and get loaded at boot, rendering such memory test moot.

nikbackm · on Oct 12, 2015

The browser's own memory footprint should be minuscule compared to that of the pages it loads and runs.

lbenes · on Oct 13, 2015

I didn’t mean people replaced IE because of its high memory usage. I was comparing them as 2 browsers that are both installed by default. People replaced IE because it provided an inferior browsing experience. On low-end devices, Chrome is now the inferior option because of memory bloat.