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While I hate seeing all of the duplicate Chrome entries in Task Manager, I have not experienced what this guy is complaining about: Google’s browser, he claims, uses so much RAM that it is practically unusable. The author urges everyone to switch to Opera, which supposedly performs flawlessly in comparison, particularly in regard to handling large numbers of tabs. Is this just a clever ad for the new update, “Reborn,” or is Opera really the right alternative? The browser was bought by a Chinese consortium last year for $600 million.
…if you like opening more than a couple tabs at once, Google Chrome is not the browser for you. Over the last few years, I have grown endlessly frustrated with Chrome's resource management, especially on MacOS. Admittedly, I open too many tabs, but I'd wager that a lot of you do, too. With Chrome, my computer crawls to complete unusability multiple times a day. After one too many times of having to go into Activity Monitor to find that one single Chrome tab is using several gigs of RAM, I decided enough was enough. I switched to Opera, a browser I had previously thought was only for contrarians.
…if you like opening more than a couple tabs at once, Google Chrome is not the browser for you. Over the last few years, I have grown endlessly frustrated with Chrome's resource management, especially on MacOS. Admittedly, I open too many tabs, but I'd wager that a lot of you do, too. With Chrome, my computer crawls to complete unusability multiple times a day. After one too many times of having to go into Activity Monitor to find that one single Chrome tab is using several gigs of RAM, I decided enough was enough. I switched to Opera, a browser I had previously thought was only for contrarians.