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		krzyk on Sept 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and othe... Chrome uses more memory than Firefox. Just try opening 50 tabs in each - chrome will eat your RAM.

bduerst on Sept 20, 2019 [–]

I've never understood this argument. What's the purpose of having RAM if it's not utilized?

ryanisnan on Sept 23, 2019 | [–]

That logic works if you're not bounded on RAM, but it's not an inexhaustible resource; personally I'd rather keep it free for VMs or other high cost operations.

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