[mucinoab]

Windows alone uses like 2GB, open some tabs and you are already out of ram. I think 8 is the new minimum.

[stagger87]

I have 30 tabs open in Chrome, real tabs, on youtube, PDFs, and code/API docs, and I just cycled through them all to make sure they are loaded, and Chrome is at 600MB.

The phase "open some tabs and you are already out of ram" is a bit of an exaggeration.