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CinnamonBun
CinnamonBun

Reputation: 1150

Chrome processes still being displayed, even after chrome instance has been closed

I've recently been playing around with the Process class, however, I've come across something a bit peculiar.

When I execute the following code, after I have closed all instances of Chrome:

foreach(var p in Process.GetProcesses().OrderBy(p => p.ProcessName))
{
    if(p.ProcessName == "chrome")
        string.Format("{0}: {1} - {2}", p.Id, p.ProcessName).Dump();
}

The strange thing is that it still shows multiple chrome processes running. How is this possible?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 124

Answers (1)

Thomas Weller
Thomas Weller

Reputation: 11717

Chrome per default preserves its processes when they are started by a plugin. So, if you have any plugin installed, this process will remain in memory after you have once started Chrome - even after you have closed the browser. This is done due to performance reasons - almost all plugins will go through a fairly extensive initialization phase on startup (login, data retrieval etc.). You can change this in Chrome's settings.

Upvotes: 1

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