google chrome helper

Stop using Chrome, delete it. It has a reputation for excessive RAM usage, plus Google sells your data.

FWIW, the Brave browser uses less resources and can use Chrome extensions.

If you want to see what Chrome does to your Mac, start it up and then run an EtreCheck which will show everything that John Galt said in his post.

Lanny, this is not helpful, really, is it? However, if that is the only option, then I understand the boldness of your reply...but aren't there other opportunities to mitigate this problem while still using Google (with knowledge of the caveats you state)?

-M

This Google chrome helper is hogging up my RAM with more than 10 instances.

That's what Google does.

You can install a truckload of RAM and Google Chrome will gleefully use all of it. Google doesn't care. Its job is to effectively hijack your Mac into an information-harvesting and -uploading "bot" by whatever means necessary, so that Google can harvest your personal information and sell it. It does so by infesting a Mac with constantly running, automatically updating, resource-intensive system modifications in the same manner as a "computer virus" would, if such a thing were to exist on a Mac, which it doesn't. If that causes your Mac slow to a crawl, so be it. And, if that results in the need to replace your Mac with a brand new model every year or two, I suppose Apple won't mind either.

Smart Mac users don't use Chrome.

Not that I know of. Why are you so attached to Chrome?

I must concur with Lanny that Chrome is junk. It uses an inordinate amount of computer resources and sends your personal data to Google.

You're welcome.