Why Does an Empty Chrome Tab Take 23 MB?

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I created blank input for when I want to write text in the browser and I don’t trust any other site to not steal my data.

23 MB!

This file literally is just a textarea with inline styling to make it 100% of the width of the page. 53 characters.

Why does it use so much memory?

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