Use Google Chrome’s Task Manager to Find Out What’s Slowing Down Your Browsing
Frozen web pages, a precursor to constantly frustrating dead tabs , can be very frustrating – even more so when you can’t pinpoint what is causing slowdowns or random dead tabs. If you want to know more about which windows or processes are taking too much of your memory and processing power, tech site Ghacks invites you to look under the hood of Google Chrome using its built-in task manager.
To view the processes running in Google Chrome, select the options icon, click More Tools, and select Task Manager. In the Task Manager window, you will see each open tab along with each extension enabled, the amount of memory and processor power they are using, and how much network data they are sending or receiving. You will also notice minor processes like how much GPU power Chrome uses to keep things running smoothly.
The real surprise is the amount of memory occupied by your extensions. Individually, one or two extensions may not take up most of the available memory, but if you’ve been adding extensions since you started using Google Chrome, you can have a dozen or more running at the same time, without needing to consume more and more of your memory. RAM. To reduce the amount of memory used, take the time and re-evaluate the number of extensions installed and how often they are used. Hint: you definitely don’t use all of them.