When it comes to normal web browsing, performance is critical – you don’t want to be waiting when utilizing a web app. For what it’s worth, the majority of complaints we’ve heard from coworkers and people on the internet are about how resource-intensive Chrome is, not how slow it is. While Chrome is not totally to blame for high RAM utilization (all the scripts it runs consume space and resources of their own, and measuring system resource usage may be tough), it does have a reputation for consuming a lot of memory.
