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mushtama

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Feb 14, 2012
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I use chrome on my 2011 macbook pro 13" (i5, 4gb ram). When i watch videos on youtube (they tend to be "720p") the amount of ram used by the shockwave flash plug-in is shocking - last night it was using 1.75gb (as shown on activity monitor). When i checked instat, it said that i had 21mb of ram left.

Is this an issue with chrome, memory management on my mac, or something completely different? I'm not too technical with computers so don't bog me down with technical jargon :(

Thanks
 
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