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by Lev1a 2299 days ago
Vacuuming up RAM while all the other applications have to fight over the leftover scraps or wait for paging to get the data from disk (1) is NOT a good thing as much as Electron-zealots want to normalize running a multi-GB browser instance for every single application.

(1): burning through an SSD's limited number of write cycles OR being at least an order of magnitude slower to access in the case of HDDs