High CPU in Chrome?

Thursday, 10 February 2011 at 1:33 am

Syndication

This post was orignally posted on Tumblr on the blog: Nerd Ramblings. View the full syndicated blog or view the original post.

Had this problem recently, was killing my battery-life. Came up with this method of finding out what the problem was, in my case ‘EXFM’.

Go to Task Manager or Activity Monitor, and kill the Chrome process that is using the most CPU.
Chrome should tell you what extension crashed.
That extension is what’s making Chrome high CPU.
Uninstall that extension and you’ll be fine. :)

You’re welcome.

If it doesn’t work do a fresh install of the latest STABLE Chrome.

EDIT: Flash Player 10.2 has been released today. Which means Flash based video shouldn’t impact CPU as it runs through Hardware Accelerated GPU.