Chrome Used 10X More RAM Than Safari on macOS Big Sur in Recent Test [Updated] :
The original update time :20, 2021 5:20 PM
By PST by Sami Fathi
Chrome uses 10 times more RAM than Safari on macOS Big Sur
According to a test conducted by Flotato creator Morten Just, Google Chrome used 10 times as much memory on macOS Big Sur as Safari (via *iMore*) for normal and lightweight web browsing.
In a blog post, Just outlined two scenarios in which he tested both browsers on the latest version of macOS. The first test was conducted on a virtual machine, and the second on a 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro with 32GB of ram. In its first round of tests, Just simulated a typical browsing pattern, opening Twitter, scrolling around, then opening a new TAB in Gmail and composing an email.
In this test, Just found that Chrome was using 1GB of RAM, while Safari was using only 80MB. But the two-label test is just the beginning.
While the comparison is grim, Just does say that Google Chrome is likely to “go to great lengths to manage its memory usage across individual tabs” to keep current tabs “fast and responsive.” In his tests, Just found that his app Flotato is a lightweight alternative to Chrome, creating apps based on the Web and using significantly less memory than Safari or Chrome.
Chrome is known to be a memory hog on Macs and Windows computers, a problem Google recently tried to fix.
With the launch of macOS Big Sur, Safari got a major update that further outpaced Chrome. Apple said Safari on macOS Big Sur was “on average 50 per cent faster than Chrome when loading frequently visited websites” and offered up to an hour and a half of streaming video and up to an hour of normal Web browsing on a single charge compared to Chrome and Firefox.
Update: Comments suggest that these measurements may be inaccurate. We will provide further updates as more information becomes available.