Chrome Processes Getting Out Of Control ... Taking All My RAM

[Toothless]

Totally disagree. CCleaner is still a great program. Yes, Piriform, the company, has issues since being bought by Avast, but CCleaner, the program, is still a great cleaner. Just because we don't like the politics and policies of a company (or in this case, their parent company), that does not mean their products are bad.

Never knew they got bought out, must've been when I gave up on the support.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Anything but CCleaner. Piriform has gone so far down from when they started that's it's laughable.

I kinda agree tho' I still using some older CC version that ain't that bad at all.....but beside that I am also using Ashampoo and Advanced Care + SuperAntispyware to clean adware&malwares....

 

[Vya Domus]

And frankly, Google should be one of the least of our worries. Unless you tell them, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla, for example, they don't know our real names, street addresses, billing information, or even our physical location if we connect via Ethernet. And they are not trying to collect that information either. The closest Microsoft, for example, knows of my physical location is my POP (point of presence) - the physical location where my ISP connects me to the Internet backbone. In my case, that is 6 miles away on the other side of town.

They don't even have to get names and addresses directly, they can just infer approximate information from other data, which they do all the time. And even that doesn't matter because even if all that data is anonymous it's still tied to actual hardware who's location can always be tracked.

 

[Bill_Bright]

Never knew they got bought out, must've been when I gave up on the support.

Yep. That is when their problems started. In fact the big security issue they had a couple years ago was due entirely to Avast, and not Piriform.

They don't even have to get names and addresses directly, they can just infer them from other data, which they do all the time.

Right. If the user already put the information out there (or allowed it to get out), companies are free to harvest it all they want.

I note one of the more popular ways bad guys got personal information was by one of our contacts giving it away. For example, by forwarding a joke to all of their contacts while leaving all the return addressees email addresses in it.

 

[BlaezaLite]

Has anyone tried Brave? I like it but never have loads of tabs open, so can't say if it'll eat ram.

 

[Bill_Bright]

I've tried Brave. It works. Beyond that, I found nothing special about it.

 

[rukawaxz]

This is my Chrome usage now after installing the great suspender.

Another great extension is
Close Duplicate Tabs:

Close Duplicate Tab

Close tabs which are duplicated. Only tabs with exact URL matches are closed.

chrome.google.com

Is useful when you have duplicates tabs and you are not aware.
Now for my usage I am a web developer and my laptop has only 16 GB RAM. Using Chrome + 2-3 Code Editors + Dabatabase manager + Postman + Firefox would completely freeze my laptop.
Which was a pain since I had to restart my computer and opening everything up again.
I use chrome since is the most used Browser which helps when developing web applications since most users will use Chrome and each browser behave differently.

You can also apply extra memory saving by going to "The great suspender" options menu.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

 

[micropage7]

CCleaner is still a great program. Yes, Piriform, the company, has issues since being bought by Avast, but CCleaner, the program, is still a great cleaner. Just because we don't like the politics and policies of a company (or in this case, their parent company), that does not mean their products are bad.

yea, but actually i prefer their old style that straight forward cleaning the stuff than now.
it looks like many android apps that add and add more features but leave its basic function

 

[Rei]

Has anyone tried Brave? I like it but never have loads of tabs open, so can't say if it'll eat ram.

I've tried Brave. It works. Beyond that, I found nothing special about it.

I actually have Brave installed along with SR Iron & CCleaner Browser instead of Google Chrome. I prefer Brave's UI over Chrome but all these browser offer nothing significant over Chrome. Any privacy-based feature & such can also be done with Chrome by installing additional extensions/add-ons which these browsers also have built-in. Since these browsers are just modified forks of Google Chromium browser like Chrome is, it still doesn't alleviate the amount of RAM usage to the minimum needed. Additionally, I also have Basilisk & Firefox Nightly for my Firefox-based browser.