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by miles-po 2283 days ago
"I've got 12 browser windows with 50 tabs each. And one of the tabs is playing a YouTube video while another is playing a movie on Netflix. And I've got a Facebook tab or two. Bunch of social media. Then there are the browser extensions. Gmail. A chat client or three. Basically running whatever quality of code and image optimization the sites I visit.

"Hey! Why is my browser using up 10GB of RAM all by itself? It's so bloated!"

tl;dr: don't just blame the browser