The Task Manager in Chrome is very similar to the Windows Task Manager, in that memory, CPU usage and other activities are monitored. Another similarity is that it can be used to end a process.
There are a couple ways to access the Chrome Task Manager. The easiest way, is the keyboard shortcut (Shift+Esc). Or, it can be accessed by clicking on the wrench icon in the upper right corner, and selecting Tools>Task manager from the menus.
Right clicking on one of the items in the list will bring up a menu, where the information on any checked items will be displayed in columns.
If you want to force a webpage or application to close, just click the End process button.
Advantages of Chrome Task Manager:-
But why would a browser have a Task Manager? Well, Chrome operates a bit differently that other browsers. Instead of occupying one process that takes a huge amount of system memory, Chrome separates tabs as single processes. This is different, yet has some ingenuity to it.
One of the reasons for this is because of security. Being able to lock down each tab as a single process ensures that malware or spyware does not have as much capability to infect the entire browser or system. Another reason is stability. Many of you have probably experienced a crash in Chrome, but that crash only affected a certain tab because it is set up as its own “sandboxed” process.
Even as a browser, Chrome is like an operating system in and of itself. If you look on the bottom left hand side you can see that I have highlighted the “Stats for nerds” link.
