Hey folks, quick computer-related question: can using Chrome cause your computer to hard freeze? Especially if said computer is pretty outdated, maybe that coupled with the browser's continued updates is causing incompatibilities with older systems in the long run or some shit like that? When Chrome is open my memory usage goes to 30%, all that just for a browser? Seems unreasonably much but then again what do I know I'm super retarded when it comes to computers.

The machine in question is running Windows 7, and I often keep many tabs open, like 20 at a time sometimes more, can that be enough to tip a literal 10 year old computer over the edge? It's got a i4790K CPU and a Nvidia 970 GPU.
I've been having some hard freezes some months back which at the time I thought were because of the CPU, so I replaced it, but they're back today, got two hard freezes in 8 hours. My night is ruined, I thought I'd gotten rid of this shit