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Private versus shared memory from chrome://system. I suspect shared doesn't really matter.

I'm using shift+esc task manager, and top to see overall system free ram.

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Good catch. All the quoted memory figures are for private memory.

The shared memory figures in the session test (10 tabs and 15 extensions) were all at 0 in both Chrome 55 and 54.

Oh it's the other way around for me. Shared are around 50mb for each extension.

I updated Chrome after checking the RAM usage, same tabs opened as before, this is the change:

Browser 324 MB private, 83 MB shared

Browser 226 MB private, 67 MB shared

Note that often RAM usage goes up as the browser is running longer. A good test would wait the same amount of time after opening the browser to check.

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