On Thu, 8 Dec 2016, o1bigtenor wrote:

> What's really funny is that you used to be able to run a browser in low 
> digit MB and now we need lots of GB and its still not reliable and 
> consistent!

Chromium is showing me that almost every page I have open is using more 
than 100 MB of RAM.  That seems absurd.  I sometimes find one running amok 
and eating up multiple gigabytes.

I suspect this has something to do with surveillance functionality.

Mike