Given up on Google Chrome

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While it seems to work OK, it is a resource hog. I've had yet another warning this morning that it had taken around 400 MB memory, leaking like a sieve, the memory usage continuing to slip upwards all the time. It sits there taking nearly 100% CPU even after I've finished browsing (when there is zero modem activity). It permanently says the update server isn't working. Error 1. Time for an un-install. Not impressed. I'll stick with Firefox.

why, in your estimation, is it behaving like that?

I've no idea. The only website I've been using Chrome for is WP but despite the many bugs in the site I can't really hold WP responsible for Chrome malfunctioning. Anyway, Chrome is gone from my computer now.

What type of modem (DSL, cable, dial up)? Chrome seems to do a fair amount in the background Does your PC need more RAM? I don't blink at a process with a 400M working set.

It is only dial-up here in rural France. The issue was that it kept clocking at 100% CPU after pages had loaded and there was no longer anything at all coming down the wire. Looks like Chrome had got stuck in some sort of memory leaking loop. It isn't the first time its happened. Anyway, Chrome is uninstalled now.

Good choice. I don't think chrome is designed around dial up use or PCs with limited RAM.

The computer isn't too bad spec. It has 1GB ram. I don't have problems with any other software; besides, like I say it looks like Chrome had gone rogue for unknown reasons.

I have about 850M in use with chrome at the moment across 11 processes. I also have a 25M up and down internet connection. Chrome is perfectly usable for me except for the occasional crash. Although, 4 of the processes are taking between 12-17% of my CPU each. I also happen to have 3 tabs on wrong planet open.

I encourage you to file a bug with Google. In my experience they were too busy to deal with it until a year later when thousands of people had reported the same issue (which to me was glaring). But this was early in development when Chrome had all sorts of "minor" problems.

I've noticed the same memory usage from Chrome myself, on both Windows and *nix. This is either a well known bug with Chrome, or it was intentionally designed to keep hold pages in volatile memory to improve speed performance. --Personally I dislike Chrome and much prefer to use Opera.

It's something about this site, within task manager on my hexcore I'm sitting at ~38-40% utilization. Once I close the WP tab it drops to 1-2%.

You may consider additional RAM as 1 GB has long been surpassed as a comfortable amount.

Yeah Chrome is pretty bad when it comes to resource usage. I once did a side by side test of Firefox and Chrome. Chrome was using double the amount of RAM that Firefox was using whilst having the exact same pages open as Firefox did. I would recommend making a change to Firefox, out of all the big name web browsers it uses the least amount of resources. Besides Chrome also seems to have vulnerability after vulnerability, it always seems to be getting updated.