High quantity of unknown Chrome processes running? It it normal?

So when I checked Task Manager I noticed that I had a lot of Chrome processes running. Problem is I have 1 Chrome window and 1 tab open. Is this normal for Chrome or is there something wrong?
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Darren

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Just Chrome being Chrome. It runs a process for any individual extension as well as just extra ones for the hell of it. I frequently will have over 20 processes at once. Helps with stability since if something crashes it doesn't take out the whole thing.
 
Just Chrome being Chrome. It runs a process for any individual extension as well as just extra ones for the hell of it. I frequently will have over 20 processes at once. Helps with stability since if something crashes it doesn't take out the whole thing.
Oh okay. It would be nice to get other confirmation on this if possible. Thank you! was dealing with a Virus a few weeks ago wasn't sure although Malwarebytes hasn't found anything. Appreciate the feedback.
 

johnb35

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Yes, its just the way chrome is, firefox is starting to do the same thing but not as bad. With 1 window open, I have 5 firefox processes going.
 

Darren

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Thanks. Yeah I've heard of this a lot actually just never noticed it on Task Manager. I was surprised when I saw it. I am at ease now. Thanks
Yeah I just checked and with 3 tabs of Chrome open I have 17 processes. To be fair though all in all it's not that much RAM usage, just has a lot of individual processes. I'm using about 800MB out of 16GB so not a big deal by any means.
 
Yeah I just checked and with 3 tabs of Chrome open I have 17 processes. To be fair though all in all it's not that much RAM usage, just has a lot of individual processes. I'm using about 800MB out of 16GB so not a big deal by any means.
Wow! that's crazy. I never knew this was happening before lol No I agree on the RAM part I just thought they were processes running hidden in the Background so I was alarmed thought it was a virus of sorts. But after I closed the one Window all the processes closed themselves with it. So its all good now. Just didn't know it was using that many at the same time.
 
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