Chrome browser with 50+ tabs consumes 4-8GB RAM and provides no actionable way for users to understand or reduce per-tab memory cost

Chrome's multi-process architecture allocates a separate renderer process per tab (plus processes for extensions, GPU, and utilities), and with 50+ tabs open, total RAM usage reaches 4-8GB. While Chrome's Memory Saver feature can reduce inactive tab memory by up to 80%, it discards tab state entirely, requiring a full page reload when the user returns to that tab. So what? The 30-40% of knowledge workers who are 'tab hoarders' (keeping 50-200 tabs as a bookmarking and context-preservation strategy) face a constant tension: keep tabs loaded and suffer system-wide slowdown, or let Chrome discard them and lose page state (scroll position, form inputs, authenticated sessions). So what? When Chrome discards a tab with an authenticated session, the user must re-login, which for services with MFA adds 30-60 seconds of friction per tab restoration, and for services with OAuth flows can fail entirely if the session token expired. So what? Chrome's Task Manager shows per-process memory but maps poorly to user-visible tabs (subframes, service workers, and shared processes make attribution confusing), so users cannot make informed decisions about which tabs to close. So what? Third-party tab management extensions (The Great Suspender, OneTab) have repeatedly been sold to malicious actors who inject spyware, creating a security risk from the very tools users adopt to solve Chrome's memory problem. So what? The browser, which is the primary application for most computer users, has become a memory management problem that requires technical expertise to manage, creating a silent productivity drain across hundreds of millions of users. This persists because Chrome's per-process isolation is a security feature (preventing cross-site data leaks via Spectre/Meltdown), making architectural consolidation a security regression, and Google's business incentive is for users to stay in Chrome rather than to minimize Chrome's resource footprint.