One of the best features of the Google Chrome web browser that doesn’t get enough attention is its Task Manager. No, not the Windows Task Manager, the Chrome Task Manager as it is its own separate thing entirely.
You may be surprised to learn that Chrome isn’t exactly light on resources compared to other browsers, but a reason it performs so well is memory management, as explained in the video below.
Watch the video to show how to use the Chrome Task Manager and see what you can do with it. While what you can do with it isn’t much, the information you gain from it is very helpful when troubleshooting the browser should it become slow-performing.
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I’m running Chrome for mac and all 3 of those options to reach the chrome task manager don’t exists. I found it in the Window menu.