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Why do you say "he is partially responsible for it"?

FTA: "I work on Chrome, on Windows, focused on performance. Investigating this hang was actually my job."

So? The two bugs uncovered were Windows bugs.

The user doesn't care. Chrome is slow, he won't switch OS just because of that.

over 300MB per open tab is not a windows bug. Opera 12 does "legacy" Gmail just fine in ~5MB of ram.

It appears the author works on Chrome.