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Hey guys,
I'm having a weird problem with Chrome. While I have it open, it will slowly start to slow down my computer until it eventually gets to the point that I have to kill everything with Task Manager. I've used Chrome for well over a year, and haven't had a complaint with it up until just recently (this started about a week ago). I've run a full computer scan with AVG and that turned up nothing, and restarting obviously didn't help.

Here's what my Task Manager looks like when Chrome is getting real bad:


And after killing it with Task Manager and restoring the same exact pages:


You'll notice the random 429,308 K on one tab of Chrome. That tab is just a forum page not running any video or anything. Exactly as if I was on Stardestroyer.net. I am really confused by this. Any ideas?

Thanks for any help.

What version of Chrome are you running? (Stable, Beta, Dev, Canary?) Do you have any extensions loaded? Also, be wary of 'Mem Usage' - it does not mean what you think it means.

Running Stable with Adblock.

I'm not incredibly computer literate, but I do see a correlation between my computer's performance tanking and Chrome getting up above 200,000 K in mem usage.

Using a lot of sites with flash content per chance? That process could be and likely is flash's plugin process, the same thing happens on my PC occasionally if chrome + flash sites has been open for a few days.

When you kill it which tab dies? Or do you get a plugin has crashed error?

Use Firefox instead of Google Spyware, like smart people do.

Lord Relvenous wrote:I'm not incredibly computer literate, but I do see a correlation between my computer's performance tanking and Chrome getting up above 200,000 K in mem usage.

Your commit charge indicates that you have plenty of free memory available. Tabs that are running CPU-intensive flash animation may be taxing your system - and Adblock on Chrome may not actually be blocking flash applets (but rather just making them invisible ... while they still run).

LionElJonson wrote:Use Firefox instead of Google Spyware, like smart people do.

You will of course elaborate on how Google Chrome == spyware.

LionElJonson wrote:Use Firefox instead of Google Spyware, like smart people do.

Yeah, that's real helpful. I will point out the point that this only started recently.

phongn wrote:

Lord Relvenous wrote:I'm not incredibly computer literate, but I do see a correlation between my computer's performance tanking and Chrome getting up above 200,000 K in mem usage.

Your commit charge indicates that you have plenty of free memory available. Tabs that are running CPU-intensive flash animation may be taxing your system - and Adblock on Chrome may not actually be blocking flash applets (but rather just making them invisible ... while they still run).
So installing a Flashblock might be a viable solution?

Phongn is right that adblock for chrome didn't stop ads it just hid them, try version 2 which actually stops the download of them. Or use adthwart which has the same engine as adblock pro. For what it's worth I use adthwart on my macbook but no extensions on my desktop, this thread reminded me of that and hey poof no more slowdowns.

Phongn I'm sure he's one of the idiots who thinks the search bar sending your searches to google in chrome somehow constitutes spyware.

Yes everyone should just continue to use firefox despite it now losing the optimization race, bad embedding support, a spaghetti API and intolerable fans. Actually I do run the FF4 nightly's and they are hugely better, with a new plugin architecture and better speed but... that speed was obtained by pulling JSCore from safari/webkit into gecko. lol.