When did browsing the web suddenly start requiring more than 4GB of RAM?

Like.. how did that happen? What changed between 2008 and today that made a few webpages take up more RAM than Photoshop?

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@Zordrak My performance issues have been with a good ad blocker installed, and most ad serving domains blocked at my hosts file. D:

Vivaldi would be lovely if it had an OS X client. >..<

@Zordrak WAIT I was thinking of a different one! Vivaldi was the one I was trying to remember!!

Thank you!! :D

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