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tistou
Dec 12, 2019Bronze Contributor
Edge process
Hello It's an idea, where ever since Canary's versions, there are more and more Edge processes ? I disabled collections in Flags and still have the Collections process.... How do I turn it o...
HotCakeX
Dec 12, 2019MVP
Hi,
let's do a comparison
Microsoft Edge Version 80.0.360.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)
Google chrome Version 80.0.3987.7 (Official Build) dev (64-bit)
I opened the same 4 tabs in each browser, separately. (4 tabs include: 2 techcommunity tabs, 1 youtube and 1 article on another website)
here is how the Windows task manager looks like for
Chrome
21 Processes
And for Edge
17 Processes
tistou
Dec 12, 2019Bronze Contributor
Ok thanks 😉
It's true that I compared to the old Edge
I just find it weird to have 11 processes (in Windows Task Manager) on a single web page
And also in the browser task manager, only 7 ...
The 4 more listed in Windows appear from where... ![]()
- HotCakeXDec 12, 2019MVP
It's normal
one process per tabone per extensionone for GOPU processesother processes for other tasks that I don't know about.lots of smaller processes vs one big one.
https://www.howtogeek.com/124218/why-does-chrome-have-so-many-open-processes/- HotCakeXDec 12, 2019MVPyou should use the details tab in task manager to view all of them at once.
also the task manager of the browser itself always is different than the one in Windows.
they category them differently.