Tech savvy nostriches, please let me know if this is normal.
All I've got open is one single tab with an ongoing Google Meet call. This is my work laptop, no extensions installed at all.
How the hell is this thing running 13 things and almost 800 MB of memory? And I've checked my personal desktop and it's even worse - more than 20 unknown things running and 1.4 GB used. 
It makes sense but the issue is that it's taking the browser over one full minute to unfreeze after I open it up. Completely unresponsive.
It started just a few days ago, out of the blue. It's up to date, hardware acceleration is off, etc. At this point it's become unusable.
Switch on hardware acceleration & switch off continue running in the background.
Should help a little.
Mine fires up quickly, 2 windows & multiple tabs on a Linux system.
Nothing changed. Mine used to fly up until just a couple of days ago. That's why it's so annoying. There's something going on.
