When Chrome Ate My RAM: Designing a...

Chrome wasn't "crashing." It was just...slowly suffocating my system. Over time, RAM usage would creep up. Background tabs accumulated state. Other applications started freezing. The fan would spin up. And yet, nothing looked obviously wrong. No single tab was the culprit. The problem wasn't too many tabs. The problem was a lack of coordination between the browser and the system. So I built something to experiment with that idea. This article explains the architecture and reasoning behind a hybr