Headline in an alternate universe: "Google Chrome saves 10% of memory usage by disabling vital security protection"
Seriously - just this increase is 2x the total memory of a computer I used to browse the internet 20 years ago. People, including programmers, seriously misunderstand how amazingly powerful today's computers are, and how amazingly bloated and inefficient today's applications and websites are.
The bloat of many current desktop apps, each with their own copy of a large-footprint GUI toolkit or rendering engine, is indeed sad by comparison. I hope this situation will change when Windows 7 and IE 11 are finally history, meaning that desktop app developers can count on the OS to provide a modern web rendering engine on all platforms.