Your AI-Powered Browser Might Be the Biggest Resource Hog

A lawyer’s Comet browser was eating 12 GB of RAM. Here’s what I learned digging into why — and it applies no matter which browser you use.

A member in my community posted something that sounded like a rant and a cry for help rolled into one. He’s been a fan of Perplexity’s Comet browser for a while. But lately his Mac mini kept running out of memory, and when the force-quit box popped up, Comet was using 10 to 12 GB of RAM — on a machine with 16 GB total.

He asked if anyone else had seen th…