Google Chrome Helper anyone?

Chrome is a resource hog. If you're going to use it, you'll run into those issues.

Why not upgrade to a newer version of OSX?

 

Try Chrome Canary, its far better optimised for OS X

Q-6

 

The newest version of Chrome is much faster (I tested this)!

See also:
http://blog.chromium.org/2015/03/new-javascript-techniques-for-rapid.html
and
http://blog.chromium.org/2015/04/scheduling-tasks-intelligently-for_30.html

 

No, that's not possible. Deactivate not necessary Chrome extensions and check the Chrome plugin settings:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/142064?hl=en

 

Why can't you just quit using an outdated OS that has unpatched security holes and use something more recent like Yosemite?

 

Because no one forces him-and that's a good thing. No one attacks Snow Leopard installations. Just too much work. I did not know, that Snow leopard users are the wealthiest people on the earth.

And Yosemite? *lol*

It is also full of "unpatched security holes"-and slow on older (i.e. Mac OS X 10.6.8 compatible) hardware. Check your facts before you post here, thanks!

 

Oh yeah? At least Apple tried to fix them on Yosemite, Mavericks and ML (even if they failed), but they didn't even try fixing them in Snow Leopard. Some publicly-disclosed attacks were patched in Yosemite, but not in SL.

And yes, it will slow down older hardware, but security is paramount (in my opinion as a software engineer) and should take precedence over performance.

 

Google Chrome Helper shows up in your Activity Monitor as you open tabs in Chrome. I currently have nine tabs open right now (nine is light for me and I have 16gb of memory), and I have 14 instances of Google Chrome Helper running. In addition to the helpers, you'll also see an instance of Google Chrome. I'm pretty sure Google has the helper instances so if a tab crashes, it doesn't crash all of your other tabs (maybe security reasons too). It seems like one tab does not necessarily equal one helper.