I have one tab in Google Chrome open playing a YouTube video, and Google Chrome Helper (Renderer) is using 65% of my CPU, 400 MB of RAM, and 1.11 TB of virtual memory. This is simply ridiculous and must be a bug, right? There's no way one single YouTube tab is eating up over 1 TB of virtual memory.
How can I fix this?
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 11.5
Chromium based browsers are resource hogs. They also tend to get corrupted after a while. You may need to clear the browser cache. I recently found with Vivaldi that I had to actually clear the "Storage" which greatly improved the performance of the browser (I use no browser extensions). This setting for Vivaldi is accessible from the Tools menu --> Delete Browsing Data.... option, so I'm not sure if Chrome has a similar option or where the option is located. This cut down on the extremely high CPU & memory utilization I had been experiencing with the browser which is common with Chromium based browsers.
Or, if you feel you must have Chrome then use one of the open-source versions such as Vivaldi or Brave. They have none of the user-tracking cruft that blights the Chrome users experience, and so are less likely to have these issues.
Uninstall Chrome and use some other browser (I use Safari but have also Firefox for some tasks).
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Matti Haveri wrote:
https://chromeisbad.com
As if that weren't bad enough,
A lot has changed in the past couple years, and none of it for the better.
Google Chrome Helper (Renderer) using ridiculous amount of memory and cpu.
