Why Google Chrome increase the memory usage on each page reload?

Question

When I open the Google Chrome task manager I can see the amount of memory use for each task/tab.

Each time I load a page in a tab I can see how the amount of memory

Answer 1

I had the same problem on Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) with both Chrome and Firefox. I solved the problem by switching back to the 32-bit kernel.

OS X: Starting up with the 32-bit or 64-bit kernel