how to show processes in Google Chrome - e.g. which websites are slowing you down
If your browser is slowing down and/or crashing - then you might want to know which website (or component of a website) is the culprit.
One way to find this out is to use Google Chrome - Google’s very own browser.
When Google chrome is up and running, you can see the list of processes that are sapping resources. I would have thought stuff like this would appear under the wrench icon - but no, you fire it up by doing the following:
- Click on the ‘Wrench’ Icon that’s at the top right corner of the browser window, just to the right of the address bar (Google calls the address bar ‘the omnibox’)
- Then click on Tools
- Then click on Task Manager
A window should pop-up which shows the list of processlist.
If you see something hogging the CPU - you can select it and click End Process to kill it. This feature is very similar to the Processes Tab of Windows Task Manager.
You can click on Stats for Nerds for some detailed info.
Point to note: Be aware that , if you click on it, it might open up the new ’stat info tab’ within the same window that you are using to write this blog post in. In which case, after snooping at the stat data, remember not to close the whole window down. Just close that tab only. Otherwise you might lose your half written blog po
October 25th, 2008 at 12:49 am
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October 12th, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Update - I have modified the steps to account for the fact that the interface changed.
It used to be:
1. Click on the ‘Document’ Icon (Google calls it the ‘Page Icon’) that’s at the top right corner of the browser window (just to the right of the address bar (Google calls the address bar ‘the omnibox’)
2. Then click on Developer
3. Then click on Task Manager