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		inclemnet on Feb 13, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox So...the claim is that chrome runs a lot more javascript than safari?

mitchty on Feb 13, 2015 | [–]

I'll phrase it more that I see significantly more memory use in Chrome for long lived processes than I do with Safari.

That said, eventually both get to 6g of ram in use and a restart is needed anyway.

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