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Google To Auto-Migrate Some Users To 64-bit Chrome

Posted by msmash on Wednesday May 3, 2017 @02:40AM from the hmm dept.

Google says it will automatically upgrade the version of Chrome that some Windows users are running, in what it describes as a bet to improve stability, performance, and security. From a report on ZDNet: In a blog post on Tuesday, the search engine giant explained that Chrome users running 64-bit Windows with 4GB or more of memory will be automatically migrated to the 64-bit version of Chrome if they are running the 32-bit version.

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Re:But Google will get a free pass by Mitreya · 2017-05-03 03:00 · Score: 4, Insightful

and I suspect that most people are using way more RAM than they think.
I agree, but I think you mean that Chrome is using way more RAM than a sane person would expect.
I just opened a tab listing folders on a web server (5 files and 5 directories, no index.html). According to Chrome task manager, this tab is taking 18.94 MB! That's for 10 lines of text and white background all around.