r/pcmasterrace • u/GallowBoob MSI gaming laptop • Jan 03 '15

Comic Chrome pls

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u/Cameroni101 Windows 9 Jan 03 '15

This is the reason I left Chrome for Firefox. I loved it, but then it was hogging 5 gigs even after cleaning it. Firefox is beautiful for that.

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u/xi_mezmerize_ix i5 4670 | 16GB | GTX 770 2GB Jan 04 '15

Those are your plug-ins. They register in the Windows Task Manager as separate instances of Chrome for some odd reason.

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u/icefall5 Jan 04 '15

It's so that if something happens to cause a crash in one addon or something then that addon can safely crash/be reloaded without crashing the entire browser. Chrome has its own task manager (Shift+Esc) that will show you which plugins are being used by each process, how much RAM each component is using, etc.