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This latest upgrade of Chrome uses a lot more memory on my Win7. I run 5 tabs and I see 10 chrome.exe running processes. WTF and why? EDIT: I take the above co

This latest upgrade of Chrome uses a lot more memory on my Win7. I run 5 tabs and I see 10 chrome.exe running processes. WTF and why? EDIT: I take the above comment back. The chrome.exe processes match with the process running in the Chrome's Task Manager. I stand corrected. However, I think there's something new about the latest upgrade. The interface looks heavy and different. This is the same upgrade which has removed the green colored SSL identifier in the URL bar.

Klathmon 10y ago
This has been like this since before chrome version 1.0 Chrome uses a multi-process architecture. So you have a process for the "browser", a process for each extension installed, a process for each tab, a process for the GPU renderer, processes for if it's pre loading a page in the background, etc... Many of them share memory. If you want a bunch of details about all of this, press "Shift + escape" while in chrome and it will open the chrome task manager which shows a bunch of this and more.