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Author Topic: Number of GChrome.exe processes  (Read 5,784 times)

phitsc

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Number of GChrome.exe processes
« on: April 26, 2011, 12:03 PM »
Why does Google Chrome start 11 GChrome.exe processes although I have only one instance of Chrome running, with only 3 tabs?

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Re: Number of GChrome.exe processes
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2011, 01:31 PM »
Maybe those are the sandbox processes for various plugins

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Re: Number of GChrome.exe processes
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2011, 01:49 PM »
Maybe those are the sandbox processes for various plugins

Ah, thanks. Found this description of Chrome's Multi-process architecture.

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