Chrome's dirty little secret

After yesterday’s post about the little thing that bugs me about Firefox 4 beta, I thought I’d mention Chrome’s dirty little secret this morning. Chrome is a terrific browser but its memory footprint is scary:

Chrome's dirty little secret

Here are some metrics from Chrome itself (you also get a peak of my key Web services):

Chrome's memory metrics

I don’t know if this is just a consequence of how Chrome handles tabs and separate functions but this is quite a bit of memory being used by a couple tabs.


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