the alternative is firefox, and that's just as bad.

the issue isn't necessarily chrome, chromes only crime is correctly jailing tabs.

the issue is in certain sites adding an absolute metric tonne of javascript and javascript libraries.

my previous workplace had over 10MB of javascript on the home page alone, new devs reduced it to 1.5MB or so, but that's _still insane_.

and a 1.5MB download isn't 1.5MB in memory, it's much more. we need to tone down the "richness' of our sites.. your users aren't _only_ using _your_ site!

I think it's safe to say, any browser with 50-80+ tabs open will gobble up ram. Especially if it does tab-process isolation (each tab having it's own memory space, etc...)

More like time to close some tabs. But I really like having my tabs open!

I've read that Safari on OS X (and IE on Windows 8) use less battery than third party browsers these days. So that's a good reason also.