Google Chrome & Google Chrome Renderer Activity Problem

[Rossagues]

I am using Google Chrome and I have one tab open. That is Facebook.

I look into the Activity Monitor and i notice Google Chrome is using up 90% CPU and 306.9 MB of Real Memory.

The Google Chrome Renderer is using 0.2% of the CPU but 1.5 GB of Real Memory.

My machine has 8 GB ram. This is with only Facebook open. This alone is making my MacBook Pro 90 degree hot on iStat.

Any advice? What can I do to prevent this

Ross

[Evoken]

Avoid Facebook

Kidding, are you using the latest version of Chrome? What extensions do you have installed? Try quitting and restarting too.

My MacBook Pro 13" also has 8GB of RAM and Chrome is currently using only 19% CPU with two windows and more than 10 tabs opened right now. I also have several extensions installed.

[Rossagues]

Originally Posted by Evoken

Avoid Facebook

Kidding, are you using the latest version of Chrome? What extensions do you have installed? Try quitting and restarting too.

My MacBook Pro 13" also has 8GB of RAM and Chrome is currently using only 19% CPU with two windows and more than 10 tabs opened right now. I also have several extensions installed.

Chrome Version: 22.0.1229.94

Extensions: AdBlock 2.5.47 & Adblock Plus 1.3 & Web of Trust 1.3.6

Shall I uninstall and reinstall Chrome?

[Evoken]

Originally Posted by Rossagues

Chrome Version: 22.0.1229.94

Extensions: AdBlock 2.5.47 & Adblock Plus 1.3 & Web of Trust 1.3.6

Shall I uninstall and reinstall Chrome?

I am on the beta channel so I can't test to see if the same happens to me with that version. Try and use the beta version:

https://www.google.com/landing/chrome/beta/

I've been using it for a while and have experienced no problems.

[Rossagues]

Originally Posted by Evoken

I am on the beta channel so I can't test to see if the same happens to me with that version. Try and use the beta version:

https://www.google.com/landing/chrome/beta/

I've been using it for a while and have experienced no problems.

I'm all for BETA's but whats so different about it?

[blatopilot]

Originally Posted by Rossagues

I'm all for BETA's but whats so different about it?

Try removing one of your adblocking extensions. You really only need one running at a time.

[khaledhawari]

hi,

I had the same problem with the Google Renderer hitting 90% CPU, and it was affecting whenever i opened Facebook and even the google.com page!!

at first i thought it was the Adobe Flash and Shockwave plugin, so i re-installed, removed, disabled, you name it i tried it, but no luck.

I went through my plug-ins again and found a Facebook plugin called "Facebook Video Calling Plugin" , i disabled that and voila! all is working like a charm now.

I hope this can benefit someone out there.

[ohmicide]

Originally Posted by khaledhawari

hi,

I had the same problem with the Google Renderer hitting 90% CPU, and it was affecting whenever i opened Facebook and even the google.com page!!

at first i thought it was the Adobe Flash and Shockwave plugin, so i re-installed, removed, disabled, you name it i tried it, but no luck.

I went through my plug-ins again and found a Facebook plugin called "Facebook Video Calling Plugin" , i disabled that and voila! all is working like a charm now.

I hope this can benefit someone out there.

this solved my problem, thanks!

odd thing is that it only happens when using my discrete graphics card which had me thinking maybe it was going bad

[pwbdecker]

OMG khaledhawari! Thank you so much!

I have been trying to solve this problem for months, I often leave my MBP on unattended and will come back to find my facebook tab having ballooned up to 1gb of memory and 90% cpu, my fan going nuts. I'm on the latest version of OSX, Chrome, everything. What confused me even more is that I have a similar macbook at work and never have this issue so I couldn't figure out what the difference is, and it's an incredibly difficult problem to google for, but you solved it! Again, thank you so much, you have no idea how much this has been bothering me!

[nampramos]

The same happens to me but I do not have this facebook plugin installed on my Chrome.

I'm tired of waking up in the morning and my MacBook is with the fan maxed out just because of this stupid "bug".

Anyone knows what else could be?

[Shlomit]

got the same issue,
got not Facebook plug-in installed.
any other solutions?
thnaks

[gubben]

I had this same issue. I do not have the facebook video extension... rather, I had to disable the feedly.com extension that was taking a lot of processor time. That worked.

[Silvereel]

Originally Posted by Evoken

Avoid Facebook

Kidding, are you using the latest version of Chrome? What extensions do you have installed? Try quitting and restarting too.

My MacBook Pro 13" also has 8GB of RAM and Chrome is currently using only 19% CPU with two windows and more than 10 tabs opened right now. I also have several extensions installed.

Woah, Chrome is quite the CPU hog... I'm running Safari with two windows, 15 tabs open, plus Preview and Finder in the background, and only using 3% CPU on my iMac. It might just be because the iMac has a more powerful CPU, but that seems very excessive.