Chrome + Yosemite

Fallen god · 31 Oct 2014 at 10:29

Hey guys,

Just to let you all know Chrome on Yosemite has a bug where all the chrome helper become unresponsive and start to ramp up usage. This won't be much of an issue unless you start running a lot of tabs e.g. at work I can easily have 50+ tabs across 4 windows where it starts to become laggy, at home I have 6-10 tabs most of the time.

However it seems Chrome Canary has fixed this issue now it seems so if it is annoying you just switch over.

Scozzer · 31 Oct 2014 at 11:01

Thanks for the tip. I just thought it was chrome being a resource hog and

Fallen god · 31 Oct 2014 at 11:26

I've noticed a few apps have this issue, spotify, skype, chrome. Its just that chrome will have the most plugins (18 in my case). Also chrome is always going to use more resources if you use it as more the a web browser, I have all my google apps, a huge stack of plugins for work etc etc so it is always a bit heavy in terms of memory but its never laggy.

Dewotter · 31 Oct 2014 at 12:11

Chrome has started opening the last tab I had opened if I click on a link, say in Tweetbot.

It will open the tab I want but then also load in whatever was the last one beside it. Can't see any options to turn it off.

fez · 4 Nov 2014 at 16:15

Yeah I have gone back to using safari due to this bug as I can't afford to have most of my ram taken up by chrome. Im a developer and I usually have a fair few tabs open all day and it was causing all sorts of issues.

There would be 20-30 "not responding" tabs in activity monitor fairly quickly.

Fallen god · 4 Nov 2014 at 17:10

Chrome canary has sorted the issue for me, I'm also a web developer and I can have up to 50 tabs once I get on stack overflow

. Canary is also much faster in general usage, and they seem to have improved font rendering.

Feek · 4 Nov 2014 at 20:45

OK, I've installed Canary but it won't allow me to set it as the default browser with Google Chrome installed. Is it just a case of deleting the .app file for Chrome to persuade Canary to be set as the default browser?

Feek · 16 Nov 2014 at 15:02

I've dumped Canary and gone back to the regular Chrome. Although Canary solved the unresponsive helper problem, it was just too unpredictable and unstable for me in general usage to use as my main browser.

Fallen god · 16 Nov 2014 at 21:54

Feek said:
OK, I've installed Canary but it won't allow me to set it as the default browser with Google Chrome installed. Is it just a case of deleting the .app file for Chrome to persuade Canary to be set as the default browser?

Settings -> General -> Default web browser. It used to be a setting inside Safari but moved out in Yosemite.

Feek said:
I've dumped Canary and gone back to the regular Chrome. Although Canary solved the unresponsive helper problem, it was just too unpredictable and unstable for me in general usage to use as my main browser.

Ahh that sucks, I've personally had almost no issues with it, outside of just having to restart it ever day or so to update it. I believe the fix should be out soon anyways.