Google to make Chrome less of a memory hog

[DaveLembke]

Found this interesting. It was one of two reasons why I dont use chrome as my browser of choice was because it seemed to be needy with RAM, consuming more and more the longer its running as the browser.

On the desktop side, Google is currently trying to fight memory leaks: “We are profiling Chrome to improve our start-up speed and proactively fighting memory bloat and memory leaks. For example, this year the first gesture latency and mean input latency has decreased steadily.”

http://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/google-working-to-fix-chrome-high-ram-usage/

[patio]

Chrome will never be in my arsenal...tried 5 times ...then gave up.

[BC_Programmer]

The problem with browsers today is their cache policies seem to be trash.

A browser cache should not simply bloat until you have to close the browser. It should only keep information in memory that is actually useful. When you have 3GBs of cache information for your web browser being stored in memory for "performance" on a system with 4GB of RAM you need to reconsider your assumptions about performance.

EDIT: by way of example: I have 3 tabs open in Firefox.

It is using 2 Gigabytes of Memory. Why? Because it's storing a crapload of images, text, stylesheets, etc. from pages I've visited this session.