"I've got 12 browser windows with 50 tabs each. And one of the tabs is playing a YouTube video while another is playing a movie on Netflix. And I've got a Facebook tab or two. Bunch of social media. Then there are the browser extensions. Gmail. A chat client or three. Basically running whatever quality of code and image optimization the sites I visit.
"Hey! Why is my browser using up 10GB of RAM all by itself? It's so bloated!"
"Hey! Why is my browser using up 10GB of RAM all by itself? It's so bloated!"
tl;dr: don't just blame the browser