Chrome uses 10X more RAM than Safari on the MacOS Big Sur in a recent test



Under normal and lightweight web browsing, Google Chrome MacOS uses 10x more RAM than Safari on Big Sur, according to a test conducted by floato creator Morton Just (via). I more).

Google Chrome MacOS Big Sur

In the blog post, the only outline is that it put two browsers for testing on the latest version of Put Cause in two circumstances. The first test was conducted on a virtual machine, and the second was taken on a 2019 16-inch MBBook Pro with 32GB of RAM. In the first round of testing, just followed Twitter, scrolling around, and then opening a new tab with Gmail and composing a special browsing method of composing email.

Under that test, it has just been found that Chrome has reached 1GB of RAM usage, while Safari has only used 80MB of RAM. However, the two-tab test was just the beginning.

Chrome Safari Ram Test

Although Tab 54TBs are open, it has just been found that Google Chrome uses 24x more RAM per tab than Safari. According to Just, both browsers were free of any extension, and this particular test was conducted on a real Mac MacBook Pro, not a virtual machine. According to its findings, Chrome used 290 MB of RAM per open tab, while Safari used only 12 MB of RAM per open tab.

Chrome Safari RAM 2

While the results are annoying, the only thing Google says is that in an effort to “keep current and tabs fast and responsive”, “Chrome may go beyond its way of managing its memory usage in tabs.” In its tests, it just seems like it has a lighter alternative to its own app, Flotato, Chrome, which builds apps based on webpages, using significantly less RAM than both Safari and Chrome.

Known as the memory hog on Chrome, Mac and Windows computers, the issue that Google recently tried to address.

With the Mac OS Big Serum, Safari has received significant updates that have taken it further than Chrome. Apple Paul says that Safari on MacOS Big Serum is “on average 50% faster to load frequently visited websites than Chrome” and that Safari provides one hour long streaming video, and up to an hour on normal web browsing. Compared to a single charge, Chrome and Firefox.

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