Post: Find Out How Much Memory and CPU Time is Being Used by Each Chrome Tab and Add-On
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12-06-2011, 07:03 AM
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RADDY1993
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The Google Chrome browser runs everything in its own process. This helps prevent problems from one renegade tab or plug-in affecting the rest of Chrome and leads to a safer and more stable performance. However, it can also mean that Chrome might use quite a bit of memory.
To help keep an eye on memory and CPU usage, Chrome comes with its own task manager. To open the task manager, use the keyboard shortcut Shift+Esc. An example of the task manager window that opens is shown in the figure below. To stop a process that is taking too much memory or CPU, highlight it and click “End process” in the lower right corner. This is only temporary until you restart Chrome and gives a way to check if a particular plug-in or extension is causing problems.
For even more details about memory usage, click the link “Stats for nerds” in the lower left corner of the task manager. A new window will open with additional details of how memory is being used. If other browsers (e.g. IE, Firefox, Safari) are also running, their memory usage will be shown as well. This provides a convenient way to compare the memory usage of different browsers.
12-12-2011, 07:00 AM
#2
Pichu
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PICHU.
Originally posted by radz1973
Extensions and plug-ins are very handy ways to add to the things that can be done with a web browser. But did you ever wonder how much memory or CPU time all those add-ons are taking?
The Google Chrome browser runs everything in its own process. This helps prevent problems from one renegade tab or plug-in affecting the rest of Chrome and leads to a safer and more stable performance. However, it can also mean that Chrome might use quite a bit of memory.
To help keep an eye on memory and CPU usage, Chrome comes with its own task manager. To open the task manager, use the keyboard shortcut Shift+Esc. An example of the task manager window that opens is shown in the figure below. To stop a process that is taking too much memory or CPU, highlight it and click “End process” in the lower right corner. This is only temporary until you restart Chrome and gives a way to check if a particular plug-in or extension is causing problems.
For even more details about memory usage, click the link “Stats for nerds” in the lower left corner of the task manager. A new window will open with additional details of how memory is being used. If other browsers (e.g. IE, Firefox, Safari) are also running, their memory usage will be shown as well. This provides a convenient way to compare the memory usage of different browsers.
The Google Chrome browser runs everything in its own process. This helps prevent problems from one renegade tab or plug-in affecting the rest of Chrome and leads to a safer and more stable performance. However, it can also mean that Chrome might use quite a bit of memory.
To help keep an eye on memory and CPU usage, Chrome comes with its own task manager. To open the task manager, use the keyboard shortcut Shift+Esc. An example of the task manager window that opens is shown in the figure below. To stop a process that is taking too much memory or CPU, highlight it and click “End process” in the lower right corner. This is only temporary until you restart Chrome and gives a way to check if a particular plug-in or extension is causing problems.
For even more details about memory usage, click the link “Stats for nerds” in the lower left corner of the task manager. A new window will open with additional details of how memory is being used. If other browsers (e.g. IE, Firefox, Safari) are also running, their memory usage will be shown as well. This provides a convenient way to compare the memory usage of different browsers.
This is very well known lol, but I prefer looking at "Stats for nerds".
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