I'm happy to see Chome is finally taking memory usage seriously. There are some heavy HTML5 pages that my 1GB android tablet can't even handle with Chrome, but run fine under FF. There are still plenty of low-end smartphones sold today with 1GB or less of RAM.
Google should heed the lessons MS learned with IE. If they want people to keep the default browser, it needs to be competitive.
Most of IE is part of the operating system and get loaded at boot, rendering such memory test moot.
The browser's own memory footprint should be minuscule compared to that of the pages it loads and runs.
I didn’t mean people replaced IE because of its high memory usage. I was comparing them as 2 browsers that are both installed by default. People replaced IE because it provided an inferior browsing experience. On low-end devices, Chrome is now the inferior option because of memory bloat.