Get to know the full potential of the Google Chrome Task Manager

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The most used browser worldwide, Google Chrome, is a powerful tool for moving around the Internet that has been growing a lot over the years. In fact it has a huge market penetration and offers us a good amount of functions and features.

Many complain about the high consumption of resources of the equipment that sometimes involves using Chrome, but partly due to all the functionality it presents. To this we must add the fact that every time we install more extensions to the software, and open a greater number of tabs. However, in order to correct or try to avoid some of the problems that we can find in Chrome, we can do it by controlling its operation a little more.

To do this we can use a powerful tool that is included in the software itself and that are the time has been improving significantly, we refer to the Task Manager of the browser itself. This is a function that allows us to control many internal aspects of the program, which will help us. So we can control what consumes more resources, the process of each section, the use of GPU, etc. It is true that at first, the information we will see here is somewhat limited, but we can increase it.

To start with all this, in principle we will tell you that we can access this functionality that we are talking about from the Chrome menu. Specifically we will achieve it from “More tools / task manager”. It will be then when the window of the function we are talking about will appear on the screen. At first, as we said, the information presented here is limited to just a few fields. These, for example, will help us to know the RAM or CPU consumption of each of the browser's running components.

Get the most out of Chrome’s Task Manager

Therefore, in case you want to know more information about how Google Chrome is working in these moments, we recommend that you click on any field with the right mouse button. Then a list will appear with all the sections that we can include to see in the Administrator, or to hide them.

Here we will see aspects as useful as the CPU usage time, the memory used by JavaScript, the priorities of the loaded processes, the start time of the program, the serious failures that have occurred, or the number of activities in progress . As you can imagine, all this will be useful for us, with a little skill, to optimize Chrome's operation.

It is worth mentioning that from here, if necessary, we will also have the opportunity to finish the processes that we see that are consuming more. To do this, just click on the element we want to close, and click on the "End process" button in the lower right corner. All this will allow us to have much more control in terms of the operation of the program and eliminate what we do not need or that is consuming many resources.

In addition, if what we need is to know the processes that consume more resources at that time, it is enough that we click on the header of the corresponding field so that the values are placed in ascending order. This will help us to see first hand what more CPU or memory is spending.