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Yes, it's fast in many aspects, but totally not lightweight. It eats memory like there's no tomorrow, and spams the OS with processes. But to be fair, that's not super relevant for most users.

I've seen technical people switch because of performance, and I occasionally use it for certain tasks too for that reason.

But almost every time I see it on a non-techie computer and ask them something like, "ah, you're using Chrome?", they look at me like I'm speaking a different language. So I suppose they were not aware when they installed it.




Our of curiosity - how many tabs do you have open?

I have many tabs open, and did notice high memory usage.

I'll reference my comment elsewhere here - tl;dr - they/we aggressively throttle background tasks now:

> Chrome recently introduced some changes to background tabs (to a bit of grumbling from sites that wanted to use background resources/service workers): > https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/03/background.... > And also - they're aggressively throttling background tabs: > http://blog.strml.net/2017/01/chrome-56-now-aggressively-thr.... > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13471543 > I'm on Chrome Canary - and there's been noticeable improvements in memory/responsive wise for a few months now. > I have around 320+ tabs open, spread over 2 Chrome profiles (around 160 per profile).




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