Controlled Crashes in Google Chrome

Pt. 10 of 10 | 2:30 |

Getting to know Google Chrome

Friday March 13, 2009

Google Chrome's a built-in Task Manager is similar to many operating systems, like Windows. With this capability you can actually perform an "End Process" on a browser tab that's misbehaving. In addition you can see statistics on memory usage not only for the browser, but for each tab that's been loaded.

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Download Google Chrome and follow along with this tutorial series

- Up in the top alongside the tab, right-click and select Task Manager.

- Highlight a browser and you can see the amount of memory it's using, the
CPU cycles and so on.

- From the Task Manager you can highlight a tab that's crashed and effectively end it without disrupting the rest of the browser.

- If you click Stats for geeks you can also see details on the memory usage of Google Chrome and all related tabs.

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