This is a great point. If you aren't careful, adding extensions on top of gmail can really kill performance because of ballooning memory.
We (streak.com) spend a ton of time optimizing performance and memory usage. Not all extensions do this though.
If you're interested, there were 2 great talks at this years Google IO on how some gmail engineers spent a year reducing memory usage (and thus increasing performance) by a factor of almost 4x for power users.
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This is a great point. If you aren't careful, adding extensions on top of gmail can really kill performance because of ballooning memory.
We (streak.com) spend a ton of time optimizing performance and memory usage. Not all extensions do this though.
If you're interested, there were 2 great talks at this years Google IO on how some gmail engineers spent a year reducing memory usage (and thus increasing performance) by a factor of almost 4x for power users.