alt Hacker NewsA few weeks ago I noticed some mysterious app was killing my (poor) internet downloading a large file.
It was chrome, downloading a multi GB file without any sort of UI hints that it was doing so. A generative AI file.
Is this why chrome uses so much ram? They’ve just been pushing up the memory usage in preparation for this day, hoping I wouldn’t notice the extra software now running on my (old, outdated) system?
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princevegeta89 • today at 5:07 PM
Don't ever use Chrome. Go for Brave or Vivaldi, they're far better than Chrome.
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nehal3m • today at 1:23 PM
Interesting. Do you have more specifics? I don't use Chrome or it's derivatives, but this is the first I've heard of it doing that.
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This is why I use Firefox. In case where I have to use something chromium based (because Cloudflare hates Firefox, apparently), I use Brave.