[dba-Tech] the problem was flash, not chrome

[Peter Brawley]

On an old geezer of a box running 64-bit Win7Pro in 4G of RAM, with no 
capacity for RAM expansion, Chrome was often eating up to a gigabyte of 
memory /per tab/, inciting swap thrashing. No amount of Chrome tuning 
could dissuade it from such behaviour.

Till I added the "FlashControl" Chrome extension, which immediately made 
the memory problem vanish---no tab now uses even 200KB no matter how 
long it's been open---and also removed the annoyance of unwanted, 
intrusive flash videos launching themselves and disturbing the cherished 
quiet in this room. The tiny price I pay for this boon is that in the 
unlikely event I do wish to play a flash video, I must click on it.

Jes' sayin'.

PB