Chrome Helper Hogging CPU-FIX

I've researched this so many times and still no answer but I have figured out one that has helped me.

I have a mac Mini 2012. Every time I opened Google Chrome, my CPU fan starts to get loud and taking up 575% of my CPU. I've read to go to "task manager" of my mac and close it. I've read to go to google chrome settings, go to "task manager" there and close it. But as many of you had seen, it comes right back when you open other tabs or other sits.

I remember a few years ago had this issue and until today I remembered what I did to resolve this issue. I updated to Mac Sierra 10.13. All of a sudden CPU fan kicked in. Once again frustrations of having this turn back on.

There were no plugins that I installed that would have started this nor touched any settings in google chrome.

So last resort, try this:

-Go to to top left and click on "Chrome"

-Select "Preferences"

-A new tab will open your settings. Click on the "settings" tab left and open "advance" menu till it drops down.

-Scroll down to "System"

-New screen will open in settings. Under "RESET" click on that.

This will not remove any of your saved bookmarks or PW accounts. It will ask you to re-login to sites like Facebook, or Ebay, etc.

-Close out Chrome using Command Q.

Re-open and see if this has helped and not use up your CPU.

Another thing to do is to also clear out your "Browser Data" which I also did after I reset the Chrome.

This has worked for me and the CPU hasn't kicked on. I do see my Chrome Helper on but only using less than 21% CPU depending what I'm viewing.

Hope this helps as it did for me!