[neglesaks]

And the saying used to be that Chrome was the chief RAM gobbler of most users' PCs. :)

[kimixa]

A fully rendered modern webpage is BIG - no matter what engine rendered it.

IIRC both current big engines drop the rendered state in the background under memory pressure, as it's pretty much the only way of dealing with it.

[lxgr]

Chrome is actually pretty good at dehydrating and rehydrating tabs on demand these days, at least in my experience.