But the more you do in your browser, the less you do on your desktop. Now you use your browser for reading email, managing your calendar, watching videos, editing documents, and even playing games. Your browser does more than it ever has before. This is how computers have always worked. Using any extensions on top of that? If you want the features they offer, you have to be willing to give up some of your precious resources for the features that make your life more convenient. Chrome also has features like prerenderingwhich make web pages faster to load at the expense of resources like RAM.Įxtensions add even more features to an already feature-rich browser. Modern browsers make the web faster, easier, and more reliable. Right now, on my system, Chrome is using a whopping 3. And it seems to have a big hand in what browser people are using.
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