How To Change Google Chrome Process Manager

Google Chrome has brought a new & innovative replica of working of a browser. Now the tabs can be easily wrapped out from its window to other very easily.

It is very innovative that now each tab & plug-ins will get its own processor so that the process do not get dissolve to with each other. Moreover it is also been seen that crash of 1 tab do not affects the whole browser. 

This positive point yield to the increase in constancy & safety of browser and the negative one is that it consumes more memory than normal and thus reduces performance of system. Also it is observed that on comparison with other browser, google uses much more memory due to its smoothness.

But then too, chrome offers users to smartly compensate that reductoin of memory by simply manipulating the settings from processes ‘per tab’ & ‘plug-in model’ and to control the working at processor level. 

Change the tab process model

Google Chrome supports four process models, each of which change the way Google Chrome creates new processes when new tabs are opened. The default model of Google Chrome is called Process-per-site-instance. In this mode a separate process is launched for each instance of a website a user visits. So if you visit a website, and click on internal links in that website that open in new tabs, those tabs will be in the same process. However, if you open an external link it will open in a different process. Additionally, if you open another instance of the same site, it will open in a different process.

The three additional options available are:

1. Process-Per-Site:

In this process model, each site is opened in a different process, however multiple tabs that have pages from the same site open will share a process.

Command-line parameter: --process-per-site

2. Process-Per-Tab:

In this process model, a new process is launched for each tab irrespective of the the site they are from.

Command-line parameter:--process-per-tab

3. Single-Process:

In the single process model  Google Chrome behaves like a traditional browser with each the entire browser and each tab running in the same process.

Command-line parameter:--single-process

You can learn more about Google Chrome's different process models here.

Other Chrome process parameters

In addition to changing how tab processes are created, you can also change how other parts of Google Chrome are segregated in processes.

Google Chrome by default runs each plug-in in a separate process. You can turn this off using the following command-line parameter:--in-process-plugins

3D WebGL content is also rendered in a separate Google Chrome process. Turn this off with:

--in-process-webgl

NOTE: Turning on the single process mode will automatically run everything in the same process.

Needless to say, don't change the way Google Chrome works unless you have specific problems with it. However if you understand the risks and know what you are doing, Google Chrome is willing to accommodate.