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When Chrome Ate My RAM: Designing a Pressure-Aware Tab Orchestrator with Rust

Tasos Nikolaou

Tasos Nikolaou

April 1, 2026

When Chrome Ate My RAM: Designing a Pressure-Aware Tab Orchestrator with Rust

#rust #chromeextension #architecture #performance

Chrome wasn't "crashing." It was just...slowly suffocating my system. Over time, RAM usage would...

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