Reason Behind Google Chrome’s Speed – Multiple Processes

Written by Pramodh KP

October 11th, 2009 at 6:27 pm

Posted in Tools & Tutorials

Google Chrome is the fastest browser, when compared with Firefox or Opera. While simplicity is one reason for its speed, there is another reason.

If you are a Google Chrome user, then you must have seen that there are multiple “chrome.exe” processes running. This is because, Google Chrome considers, each tab as a different process.

For example, try opening a single tab. You will see only one chrome.exe process running on Task Manager. Now, open another tab and you will see that there are two processes running.

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This is a new and unique  idea which I think is not any other browser so far. This actually helps to increase the speed of a browser, as there will be distribution of load through tabs. This is unlike, Firefox and Opera, which considers the whole process.

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  • Bob Robinson

    What’s going on if you open Chrome once and it creates 10 chrome.exe processes? I’ve got the Chrome 4 beta and I have 4 extensions installed. If extensions are going to turn Chrome into a pig then I’ll have to go without them.

  • http://www.techmonk.com/ pramodh kp

    Yes, Google Chrome considers every extension as a process. I tried it…. I had opened only three tabs and had an extension installed, and I saw that there were four processes running… The best way to verify this is you can see the task manager of Google Chrome browser… It shows the extension as a process… Hope you got the solution…

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