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I am in the process of discovering that 4gb of RAM is not enough to run Google Hangouts in Chromium and do anything else at all at the same time. https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/06/discovering-ram
@rhiaro if you're just trying to do IM, there's a hangouts text client called hangups that can do single and group chats. If you need video though... You probably need more RAM