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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do browsers such as Chrome and Edge use such a seemingly large amount of memory?
gpt
Unused RAM is wasted RAM

If Chrome uses 500 MB of RAM and pages take a half second to load it's alright

But if you've got 8 GB of RAM and it gobbles up 2GB precaching pages so they now only take a quarter second to load then you're happier.

The increased RAM usage doesn't really matter. If a real program comes along and asks for memory to run in then it'll get dibs and chrome will back down, but a gig of RAM sitting there empty is doing nothing but consuming power, might as well use it!