"google chrome helper" using too much CPU?

Hi, I am 95% sure that 'Let me choose when to run plugin content' is the exact same as 'click to play'. When this option is enabled and something needs to run a plugin you literally need to click on it to make it play. Hope this helps.

Hi folks, I'll share a solution I found to my version of this problem.

I've been having very high cpu, driving both fans to max on my MBP Mavericks 10.9.5, latest Chrome 45.0.2454.85 (64-bit) when playing some vides from news sites, eg. New York Times. The cpu usage was from Google Chrome Helper, several instances.

My screen resolution was in a funny state, supposedly 1680 x 1050 but my Terminal screen was anti-aliasing the text instead of plain sharp-edge pixels. I used my little menubar helper app SetResX to reset to1680 x 1050. The screen size didn't change, but the Terminal font went back to normal (not anti-aliased) and the Helper usage dropped way down to reasonable levels.

My guess is that the screen was in a funny state and possibly forcing expensive AA (Anti Aliasing) on the video rendering (of the NYT clip). So if you're having huge cpu when playing video, try changing your screen resolution, and change it back to what you want, to "shake up" the rendering settings. If you don't have SetResX, which gives you direct access to all the sizes the Nvidia chip can do, incl. the nice 2800x1880, you cpould just the dumbed-down native options in the Prefernces / Displays panel.

Ciao, Greg E.

I have a MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2012) with OS X Yosemite (10.10.5) and found that my fan speed is way fast and I could hear it as I would when doing high CPU processing.

I reset my PRAM and SMC to no avail. Then, searching around and found that 'Google Chrome Helper' was the problem. Well, I've tried the Chrome tricks listed in this thread but it didn't work.

I have 4 pinned tabs permanently in Google Chrome. When I "Force Quit" the two Google Chrome Helper CPU hogs, I saw that 2 of my pinned tabs have the "Aw, snap" icons and my fan speed when down until I can't hear it any more.

I opened up the two tabs, refresh the pages and viola... no more fan noise and 'Google Chrome Helper' isn't hogging my CPU any more (the max CPU usage is about 11%).

Well, this seemed to fix my problem.

Does anyone know what is the correct option in the latest version of Chrome 46.0.2490.71 (64-bit) ? These are my default settings.

Any, 'Manager individual plugins' have this.

ok, but what do I do if I really need help w/ Chrome going all weird? I've lost Chrome App Launcher and can't get any apps w/o a search!

I got the same problem before, first I tried to check how many tabs in my chrome that I did used before, and after that I tried to close some tabs and it works to decreased the Google Chrome Helper.

Awesome, thanks!
My CPU went from 106% for google chrome helper to

2%. Freaking awesome!

I couldn't type let alone scroll in my browser now all is smooth.

Thanks!

I have been battling with my Macbook Pro hanging and running slow for awhile now, and I only recently discovered that Google Chrome Helper may have been part of the problem. I tried the fix with the "click to play" Plug-In, and I was still having an average of 10 instances of Helper bogging me down. I recently switched to Opera. Opera does have a similar "helper", but so far it doesn't affect things as drastically as Chrome was. Time will tell. Opera is worth a look as a browner, at least in my opinion.

Hi all, I have this problem all the time and have one solution to work. I always have 5 gmails tabs pinned. So, if you goto the pinned gmail windows and click on "inbox" or "refresh/recycle" arrow thing, that tends to fix the problem for me

I also sometimes find offending tabs, so I'll close out a bunch of tabs and try again, that fixes things too...

hope this helps

There is a lot of truth to this post.

I would not go so far as to completely ditch Google products and Chrome extensions - some of it is helpful in the extreme.

However, running chrome and safari simultaneously can slow your system intolerably, especially with several instances open.

I primarily us a 27" 2011 iMac with solid state drive and 16GB memory, and same specs on a new Retina.

I have a separate login account on both machines in which to run Chrome.

Does anyone know of a site where Chrome stability is documented as upgrades are released ?

Best regards to all.

So I did what was the answer and made it so I have to manually turn on plug-ins. But after awhile on Chrome I check the activity monitor to see that Google Chrome helper is back up to using up too much CPU.

I did the suggested fix.
Went on Preferences > Settings > Show advanced settings > Content Settings (under Privacy) > Plugins and marked "Let me choose when to run plugin content".

I restarted my macbook and let it be for a couple of days. Unfortunately Google Chrome Helper still takes up to 3GB of memory. What can I do?

You want to install this : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbolifaimnlloiipkdnihal l

I checked it out but it seems to be something that has to do with the number of tabs open in the browser, right?
In that case, I rarely have more than 3 tabs opened at the same time.
Would it still help me? And if yes, how?

Thanks!

I don't know... personally, it had something to do with the number of tabs open.

Good luck!