(Dammit, outlook sucks, sorry for the endless repost/deletions!)
Comparing Safari vs Chrome in memory usage/handling. Opening 8 tabs, loading 8 different sites. Same sites in each browser, same order of tabs as well. The first image shows:
Total memory Safari is 129532/121784KB (total/page), Chrome is a lot less with 140708/85380KB (total/page)
For some reason Chrome assigns more total memory but uses a lot less page memory than Safari. Why? Also note Chrome has more processes open than there are tabs (I'd expect the number of processes to be #processes+1 but somehow Chrome has one extra process..)
However, here's the kicker.Next was closing all tabs (except for one) and loading http://my.yahoo.com in the remaining tab. See image 2:
Woops! Sa
fari, give me my memory back! Chrome, unsurprisingly has closed all processes and freed that memory.
Funnily, now Chrome does have 1 process more than there are tabs (I guess one for the "main" application, and all others for the tabs)