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Kal_Akoda t1_j9f85ca wrote

Remember a decade ago when chrome was a good browser that didn't eat up all your RAM?

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Quentin-Code t1_j9gjbcq wrote

No I don’t remember, Chrome has always been like this, since day 1.

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Apart_Ad_5993 t1_j9fvvrl wrote

And it's a complete bullshit complaint.

Browsers don't just 'browse the web' anymore. They're almost OSs in themselves with tons of background processes.

The only time you'll see performance degradation is if you're on a low-end windows machine. Or those with 55 tabs open.

Unused RAM is wasted RAM. I want the machine to use 90% of the available RAM. Kinda why I bought extra.

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Uristqwerty t1_j9gu3tn wrote

> Unused RAM is wasted RAM

Your actual OS is well aware of that fact, and will use spare RAM to make everything faster rather than just the one narcissistic program hogging extra. It'll cache files on disk so that commonly-used things are even faster than SSD. It'll erase some amount of old memory pre-emptively so that when a program demands a block of fresh RAM, the OS can immediately hand some over. Probably other background optimizations too.

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[deleted] t1_j9gl3j7 wrote

I would rather make use of this RAM in other Apps. I absolutely don't care that Chrome could be or is an OS. It should not be one. Not while running on Windows.

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maydarnothing t1_j9huv4h wrote

>Unused RAM is wasted RAM. I want the machine to use 90% of the available RAM. Kinda why I bought extra.

i will be forever impressed by people who can contradict themselves in one single paragraph.

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samyoualljaxuhn t1_j9kzhx1 wrote

Uneaten food is wasted food. I want to throwaway 90% of my food. Kinda why I buy extra.

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SIGMA920 t1_j9g4wbq wrote

> Unused RAM is wasted RAM. I want the machine to use 90% of the available RAM. Kinda why I bought extra.

Not how I would phrase it but I do agree with you there. I have 16 gigs and almost got 32. If I have 5 chrome tabs open and 3 of them are youtube videos, going back to one I left half-way and needing to refind where I started stopped is a PITA. I have the RAM to do this, don't just not use it because I switched to watching an hour long video an hour ago.

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Dull_Cantaloupe9107 t1_j9hv7eu wrote

The new Chrome settings do not preclude you from starting where you left off, it just takes a second to reload the page with the video at the spot you left it (give or take a few seconds).

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SIGMA920 t1_j9i8jkz wrote

Not with my experience. It boots me to the start of a video, subreddit, .etc .etc and reloads it far more often than not.

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Dull_Cantaloupe9107 t1_j9i9lfa wrote

Fair enough; even though I haven't experienced that, I've noticed that video playback has been stuttery tonight, so it's either something else coincidentally or just more Chrome issues.

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