Question Google chrome crashes with over 200 tabs open, do I need more RAM?

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Satearn

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I'm running an i5-8400 with 16 gigs or RAM and EVO970 NVME, windows 10

When I open over 200 tabs in chrome, it crashes, my RAM displays 100% with Xmeters when this happens.

So obviously running out of RAM.

But why doesn't Chrome dip into pagefile and crashes?

Should I buy more RAM, 16 more? 48 More?

Will buying more RAM prevent chrome from crashing, the tasks and workflow I do requires about 500 tabs

Thanks
 
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I know this post might be a little old but OP should be using either a programming language or a package like octoparse to scrape data. Using browser pages that render content is the least efficient method for webscraping.