[wademealing]

I believe that the blame here is mostly misattributed.

Caching (a good thing) and also the remote sites being bloated. I'm not sure if or should the browser be fixing that ?

[drcongo]

And yet the problem doesn't seem to affect Safari or Firefox. So, people only visit bloated sites in Chrome?

[dazilcher]

No, but it sounds like Safari and FF are not caching as aggressively. After all, unused ram is wasted ram.