# WHY SHOULD YOU USE CHROME?

Chrome has acquired a reputation for being resource-hungry compared to most browsers, despite its fast speeds. The browser takes off at a brisk pace if you don’t have too many windows or tabs open, but giving Chrome more to do at the same time will cause it to devour your device’s RAM more rapidly than most of its competitors.

The good news is Google alleviated its RAM usage problem with an update in March 2021. Google released Chrome 89 with an advanced memory allocator known as “PartitionAlloc Fast Malloc” designed to stop any process from consuming more than 10% of your device’s total memory.

The Chromium blog states this update saves up to 22% of system memory in the browser process. The blog says the update can save up to 100MiB per tab by discarding or reusing data the active tab isn’t using, like images that go off-screen when scrolling past them or opening another account.

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