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It's relevant for browsing with multiple tabs. The more RAM you have, the more you can do in other tabs after switching away from a tab without having that tab reload when you return.

It's very annoying if you were somewhere in the middle of a long page, go to look up a few things on other sites, come back, and your original tab reloads and you are back on top.




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