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Google To Auto-Migrate Some Users To 64-bit Chrome
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.
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.
In other news, Google will automatically search for results that it considers relevant, regardless of what you type in the search bar, in what it describes as a bet to improve quality of searches.
(I know on average they are right and users can't spell, but I find it really annoying when my perfectly correct search term is changed to something more common automatically)
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.
ACKCHYUALLY,
Each Chrome tab is limited to 4GB, even in 64-bit. "For security reasons."
And I've hit the limit before. Scrolling endless webpages is an easy way to hit the limit. Also, some addons like AdBlock use up a lot of memory.