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Superfluous RAM use hurts battery life a lot. Using Safari over Chrome easily saves 2+ hours for me.

> Superfluous RAM use hurts battery life a lot

Do you have a reference for why this should be? A quick search yields results suggesting only the opposite (for instance, https://superuser.com/questions/738848/does-more-ram-usage-c...).

More ram in use generally means more javascript crap running. Which means higher cpu/energy use. Its not the memory use its what is using the memory.

So...the claim is that chrome runs a lot more javascript than safari?

I'll phrase it more that I see significantly more memory use in Chrome for long lived processes than I do with Safari.

That said, eventually both get to 6g of ram in use and a restart is needed anyway.

Ah could point! I could even imagine scenarios about pre-fecthing content (say loading the next page that may never be viewed) and throwing it in RAM. Definitely would not be good for battery life.

Cheers!

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