Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?

with say 30 tabs open, 3+ GB is gone, chrome is such a dominant memory consumer! in fact it takes about 10X more memory than everything else combined on my ubuntu all the time, why?

Yes I use onetab extensions etc to save memory, just wondering why one tab takes so much memory, is this a design fault?

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