This is the reason why I never prefer Google Chrome!! It freaking kick starts number of threads in the background that keeps hogging your system resources!! The one memory hungry browser!!

Maybe you should ask yourself what you are doing in that tab?

And there is nothing wrong with hundreds of threads.

Close some tabs! Also Chrome is only using about 30% of your cpu, something else is using the rest

@Jonnyforgotten I know it's hard to believe. There is only a single tab being opened in my Chrome in which I'm reading Safari books!! Nothing extensive is being done.

@tahnik There is just a single tab being opened and I'm reading Safari books in that! Nothing extensive is being done!!

Close tabs that you dont need, remove any extensions youre not really not using either, remember chrome runs a new tab as a new process so we got to be skint here. Also check for malware, chrome is a ram and cpu hog, but not that much of a glutton. Good luck

Not only tabs, but extensions, apps and pretty much everything chrome runs in a separate process.
It also has its own task manager if you want to see what are with all those processes.

I have this with both Chromium and Chrome on Linux on every pc I've had. When I only even have it open it already uses like 1gb like what the actual fuck.

@linuxxx I actually tried digging deep into this and I found out that, whenever a main thread of Chrome starts, it also starts that stupid hangouts plugin which will quietly start eating up your memory!!

Chrome is becoming the already changing memory clogging Firefox.

@Strannch I can run Firefox with 60 tabs and then it uses about 500mb :)

@linuxxx yeah that's what's I meant. It's changing now so it's cool. I'm almost tempted to go back to Firefox.

@linuxxx Right now I have 12 tabs with 1Gb memory used... So I kinda doubt that. CPU is at 2% though.

@wil222 Oh I don't mind you doubting that haha. For me it's always been very lightweight and fast while chrome/chromium is heavy as fuck!

@linuxxx I've been using Firefox from quite a long time and it works like a charm for me!! I generally work with many tabs open simultaneously!! But that's not the case with chrome!!