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Ask HN: Why is Chrome so awful on OS X?
3 by xkeysc0re | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Having just a few tabs open eats up ~2GB of RAM and causes constant system stuttering, even if memory usage is low on other applications. Friends with newer Macbooks (I'm on a 2017 Air with 8gb mem) have the same issue. Why does it suck so much?