If you're using Windows, t he first of them is obviously the built-in Task Manager, which offers a decent overview:Īs you can see, Chrome appears a number of times there - one for each active tab and/or process: since extensions are also processes, you can already have a good general glimpse of how your system is going. Luckily enough, there are two easy ways you can figure out how much RAM, CPU and Disk Chrome is using in real-time. The first thing to do when you're dealing with Chrome performance issues is to carefully check all of your installed extensions to see how much they "cost" in terms of system resources. However, the "how to fix" part of that post could be better - which led me to write this post. In the following paragraph we're dealing with them in details.īefore starting, it's worth noting that some of these topics are also mentioned in the Speed up Google Chrome official tutorial, a short article released by Google some years ago - acknowledging the fact that Chrome has a bad reputation for hogging system resources. I stumbled upon these issues a number of times and I rarely found something useful in the community forums - thus having to solve it alone, with my own research.īy doing that I was able to find three simple yet critical issues that are behind most of the Google Chrome performance problems: This isn't a big deal when everything works as it should, however it can easily become a problem when you're struggling with some issue related to Google Chrome functions or behaviours - expecially the performance-related issue such the one mentioned above: overall slowness, 100% CPU usage, 100% memory usage, and so on. Conversely, its support (the Google Help Website and the Google Chrome Help Forum) is quite bad, expecially if we compare it to the great support provided by the Firefox Community Forums: the overall technical experience of the contributors may vary, but it's mostly low: from my experience, I can say that the vast majority is composed of "average users" more than willing to help each other out, yet often unable to provide the right answer(s).
I personally think that Google Chrome is a great browser and I tend to use it over Mozilla Firefox and other great alternative: not only for its speed and reliability, yet also for the awesome plugin & extensions marketplace it has.
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