Plugin sends CPU-hogging browser processes to hell where they belong

[fus10n]

David Flater, a computer scientist at Uncle Sam's National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), has created a Chrome extension for killing excessive browser processes, and has this month released the code under an MIT open-source license. It's called The Chrome Reaper.

Chrome on, baby, don't fear The Reaper: Plugin sends CPU-hogging browser processes to hell where they belong

 

[srgberian]

just installed it to give it try..

 

[sneaker]

Let us know how you go on, Chrome has been really slow loading recently.

 

[fus10n]

I use the ccleaner browser which is based on chrome. Seems to work well with this plug in but I do have to white list one or 2 things as it crashes the web page. Not anything major, but worth noting. white listing is simple as putting a name in and clicking save.

 

[srgberian]

so far so good its shows how much each site uses your cpu,this site is around 4% places like youtube sit @ 5%.so far no web pages have failed to load or been over 200% for more then 3 seconds..but there is fluctuation on every page.

 

[srgberian]

ok 1st errors now getting some,in gmail when i click to open a received email it crashes the page with the oops something went wrong.shutting gmail down and reopening seems to work.

 

[silverdale]

I found that with Gmail. It would keep crashing it after about 3-5 seconds. I tried closing Gmail down and restarting it but it was the same.
I ended up having to disable the extension just to read my mail

 

[srgberian]

had to do the same just to read my email

 

[fus10n]

Try whitelisting the word gmail in the settings and see what happens.

 

[silverdale]

I'm glad I did disable it so I could read my Gmail because:
I found out a Ghanain Prince needs money so he can have a life saving operation,
A woman from Thailand who wants to be my friend "long time",
300 updated post from Pinterest about loft conversions,
And how I can be a millionaire by completing simple surveys,
Good job I did disable it !!!