I am also attaching a screenshot of my resource monitoring results here. Of course, I am not saying that you go through everything without the phishing and malware protection for this is important.īut it surely works. And right there and then, my CPU usage went down from 60% to 14%, my RAM usage went down from 70% to 45% and everything is back to normal. What I did is just to disable this functionality under the Options – Under the Bonnets area. Sure, small deal, but if it consumes 80% of your CPU and 80% of your RAM, its definitely big deal. I’ve found out that Chrome, in its default installation, protects users from phishing and malware on real time. Yes, I have three open tabs and I have multiple processes running in the background. Much worse, it increases when I am using at least three tabs.Īs I am writing this blog article using Chrome, I am only using 6% of my CPU and 40% of my RAM. Recently, I’ve tried using Chrome, and using the same behavioral processes in browsing, I’ve noticed that my CPU and RAM usage spikes, even though I am confined with one tab. Most of the time, you can ignore these alerts. This alert also reports which component or application is using high memory. Performance Monitoring feature of Norton closely monitors your computer and alerts you when there is a more than normal amount of CPU or memory usage occurring. The CPU activities nor the RAM usage do not go up when using Firefox’s multiple tab functionalities. &0183 &32 Fix problem with high CPU or high memory usage. What I’ve noticed is that when I was using Mozilla Firefox, CPU activities only range from 8-15% utilization on 45% RAM usage.

In fact Firefox usually uses more memory in order to make itself faster. Also, slow and laggy is different that using a lot of memory. That's mostly the weight of the content itself. I’ve installed a processor and RAM monitoring facility (naaah, I am not using Windows gadgets which consumes lots of RAM), but instead, am using Rainmeter and its necessary skins. Open a video site or a site with GIFs and it will quickly climb to 600Mb. The only difference is that I use this laptop as a network management and monitoring unit. My laptop has a dual core processor and 2 GB of RAM (the standard off the shelf package). It loads fast, it starts fast and it really navigates fast.īut how many know that Chrome utilizes so much processor’s resources that for those PCs who have lower powered processors installed, suddenly, everything crawls down. Most of us know that Google Chrome is the fastest browser today.

Firefox using alot of memory