Chrome Process?

[SirRawrsalot]

I was under the impression that each tab in chrome would appear as one separate process, but this (screenshot) makes no sense to me. Can anyone explain?



Made the mistake of taking the screenshot with my facebook open xD

[Jess]

I have the exact same thing. a lot of CHROME.EXE and I've never knew why. I'd like an explanation too :P

[TheMatrix]

why the hell would google do that? that'd annoy the crap out of me.

anyways, i have no idea. ask one of our windows experts.

[Commander Thor]

why the hell would google do that? that'd annoy the crap out of me.
Do what? One tab per process?
So if one tab crashes, it doesn't take the rest of the browser with it.

ask one of our windows experts.

Luckily, I have arrived. ;)


3 of those processes are easily explainable. 1 is for the shell (The graphical elements of Chrome itself), and 2 are for each of your currently open tabs.
The other 4, however, are a bit odd to be honest. It's possible they're left over from recently closed tabs, and Chrome hasn't ended their process yet (Could be clearing a cache or something in the background).
It's also possible that Chrome sticks each addon (Or whatever Google happens to call them) in it's own process as well. (Assuming you have installed addons)
Could also be ghost processes that Chrome doesn't know is running. If closing completly out of Chrome doesn't end them, it's safe to manually end them in task manager.

[Unlucky_Leprechaun]

Google has done alot of weird things with Chrome and this is one of them This link should help you understand why... but it doesn't help. I think Chrome has some pitfalls that IE9 and FF4 don't have.I prefer either of these to chrome right now.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2019500/how-can-google-chrome-isolate-tabs-into-seperate-processes-while-looking-like-a-s

[MattVon]

I'd agree with Commandor Thor, on another note.. Screw the processes you have 6k emails to read!

[Tristin.]

I'd agree with Commandor Thor, on another note.. Screw the processes you have 6k emails to read!

hahaha that made me laugh :P

i response to the question, im not too sure why it would do that, as ironic as this sounds, google it!

[darkwoon]

One process for the browser itself. One per tab, and one per extension/plugin.

If you want a detailed list of the Chrome process usage, use the Shift+Esc key combo.

[anonymous.john]

Browser, one per tab, one for flash which is probably running somewhere on facebook or in your Gmail, one for task managing and background work (like cache clearing for recently closed tabs).

That's 5, your other two are probably other addons or extensions that you have, or possibly other tasks like JavaScript handling, I don't know how Chrome handles its rendering.

It's *great* that chrome does this. If any one aspect of the browser crashes and burns, it doesn't crash the entire browser. One tab can fail, the caching can fail catastrophically, all of your plugins can die without the browser window itself coming completely unglued.