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You can't display things and run in a low memory footprint. That's not how it works as you need a buffer.
What are you trying to do? You could build a custom image but that it likely harder than you need.
"64-128mb ram" is hardly "low memory"!
Megabytes, a thousand of which make a gigabyte. Chrome in my machine right now is taking over one gigabyte of memory, that alone is using more than 8 times what OP wants the whole system to. It's definitely an ask for low memory, almost embedded levels of ram.
Chrome is actually doing a lot of work to display modern webpages though. A thin client only needs to receive a video stream and send inputs to a server. That can be done with an extremely low memory footprint. The Steam Link only had 512MB of RAM and it actually ran a steam client (which contains embedded chromium) instead of acting as a pure thin client.