content: I know android is pretty good about ram usage, but I didn't know that chrome simply handed off ram to other programs. I mean, unless someone read this somewhere I don't think they'd just assume that because their Ram is all used up that they're safe to fire up yet another program.  Also, I've heard extremely tech literate people express concerns about chrome high ram usage. can you link some source material, preferably from google, talking about how it hands off ram to other programs? I didn't even know this could simply be done. I'm guessing now that that usage is what makes chrome so fast then - it just has everything queued up in RAM. Which is definitely one reason ff is much slower sometimes then; it doesn't even try to hog that much ram