# Google chrome question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 30, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-question/594661 "2011-08-30T19:17:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shinna_Minna_Ma)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-question/594661/1 "2011-08-30T19:17:35Z")
I’m running Google Chrome on a laptop with Win 7. I just happened to notice that when Chrome is running, Task Manager (on the Processes tab) shows multiple listings for chrome.exe \*32. If I only have one Chrome open, why the multiple listings? (For example, I have Chrome open now, and it’s listed 7 times in Task Manager, each with a different and changing amount of memory. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-question/594661/2 "2011-08-30T19:23:07Z")
I think Chrome shows in the task list as a separate process for each tab. It does that in mine (XP, desktop). Dunno if that’s good or bad. Do you have several tabs open? ---
**Author:** ![Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shinna_Minna_Ma)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-question/594661/3 "2011-08-30T19:36:11Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > I think Chrome shows in the task list as a separate process for each tab. It does that in mine (XP, desktop). Dunno if that’s good or bad. Do you have several tabs open? Right now I have 2 tabs open and there are 7 processes showing. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-question/594661/4 "2011-08-30T19:41:33Z")
Interesting. I have 5 tabs open and 5 processes marked Chrome. Could you have closed some tabs? Maybe Chrome doesn’t close the processes so it can open new ones faster. Unless you are suspecting a problem, I don’t know what you will learn by counting processes and tabs or anything else. IMHO, Chrome is pretty good about RAM allocation. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-question/594661/5 "2011-08-30T20:09:15Z")
I noticed this as well. When I close a tab, the process doesn’t close, just the tab. I have five tabs and seven instances of chrome. ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-question/594661/6 "2011-08-30T20:15:09Z")
Chrome definitely starts new processes for every tab and “other stuff.” I’m currently on my WinXP work machine and have 2 tabs open, with 4 processes. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-question/594661/7 "2011-08-30T21:07:02Z")
Not every tab. I currently have 34 tabs and “only” 19 Chrome processes. ---
**Author:** ![allyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@allyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/allyn)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-question/594661/8 "2011-08-30T21:13:15Z")
A nice write-up on how tabs and processes are managed in Chrome: [http://blog.marcchung.com/2008/09/05/chromes-process-model-explained.html](http://blog.marcchung.com/2008/09/05/chromes-process-model-explained.html) ---
**Author:** ![Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shinna_Minna_Ma)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-question/594661/9 "2011-08-31T13:46:41Z")
> [@allyn](#): > > A nice write-up on how tabs and processes are managed in Chrome: > > [http://blog.marcchung.com/2008/09/05/chromes-process-model-explained.html](http://blog.marcchung.com/2008/09/05/chromes-process-model-explained.html) Thanks, this is great!