Last night I logged in to see a new and horrendous looking Google Chrome.

With one tab open it sucks up more resources than Cakewalk Bandlab running 24 tracks with 14 VSTs, 4 tracks with samples, and 3 tools on the master bus including Waves J-37 tape emulator.

The new Chrome actually uses more CPU and RAM. Why????

I shut it down and downloaded Firefox. Has anyone else experienced this? What are they thinking???

Hey David,

Running the new Chrome myself, haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary.

Do you have any extensions? A bad extension can eat up a lot of CPU power.

There is a whole host of reasons one could have these issues including web connectivity, proxy servers, extensions, improper setup, malware, etc.

Currently running about ten tabs and my Chrome is taking about 3% CPU, which is pretty average.

Perhaps reach out to Google and see if they can give you some configurations to try out. Out of all the browsers, I keep coming back to Chrome.

Keep us updated!

Mikke,

I went into task manager and saw about 14 instances running as process trees, so I killed them and restarted and it is more in the normal range.

I do have Norton Internet Security, no malware, and no extensions except for Norton.

There is some internet discussion on how the new Chrome is a resource hog FWIW.

Don't know more than that at the moment.

I have 9 running under chrome but only taking up a total of 2 % of my cpu. 508 mb of memory

Now.... DL Duck Duck Go as your search engine.....

Every plug in you use shows up as a Chrome process. Between ad blockers and flash players and all of that, I have 11 add-ons running, so I show 12 Chrome processes. Look at the consumption of each process rather than how many times it says Chrome.

I don't personally use anything other then Chrome. I haven't had any issues with CPU hogging with it. I used to be a huge Mozilla fan but one day Chrome just ... evolved and I switched over.