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More ram in use generally means more javascript crap running. Which means higher cpu/energy use. Its not the memory use its what is using the memory.

So...the claim is that chrome runs a lot more javascript than safari?

I'll phrase it more that I see significantly more memory use in Chrome for long lived processes than I do with Safari.

That said, eventually both get to 6g of ram in use and a restart is needed anyway.