Two Google Chromes Running?

[BRANDONN2008]

I downloaded Chrome to see if the hype is true. I had Firefox running at the same time so I could compare the two's memory usage on the task manager. I noticed I had two Google Chromes running. I checked and I hadn't clicked on it twice. I closed it and they both went away. Does anyone know what's up?

[DavidR]

Yes, so I suggest you get a little familiar with applications you load before loading them.

Open one Chrome window and you get the one instance of Chrome, open multiple tabs and you can get multiple occurrences of the executable in the task manager. This prevents the whole browser crashing if one tab were to crash.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=chrome+multiple+tabs+multiple+task+manager+entires

See http://www.blog.zerohacks.com/?p=161, so aside from providing a browser Google provides a pretty good search engine to answer your question.

[Chris Thomas]

@brandonn2008  @ DavidR

Google Chrome has a multi-process architecture, meaning tabs can run in separate processes from each other, and from the main browser process. New tabs spawned from a web page, however, are usually opened in the same  process, so that the original page can access the new tab using JavaScript.

So, it is natural to see two or more Google Chrome Processes

[.: L' arc :.]

Same thing for IE. It helps prevent crashing the whole set of tabs when one tab crashes.

[Chris Thomas]

By default Google Chrome starts a new process for each site it opens

[YoKenny]

Sunday funnies

Google on Google Chrome - comic book

Google Chrome is Google's browser project; this comic book by Google, drawn by Scott McCloud, is scanned here and shown under its Creative Commons license.

http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome

Sunday comics is the commonly accepted term for the full-color comic strip section carried in most American newspapers. Many newspaper readers called this section the Sunday funnies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_comics

[Omid Farhang]

Google on Google Chrome - comic book

Google Chrome is Google's browser project; this comic book by Google, drawn by Scott McCloud, is scanned here and shown under its Creative Commons license.

http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome

interesting, thanks for sharing