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Force Chrome to run each tab as a process

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Mar 15, 20262246 views
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Problem

Chrome is running all of it's tabs in a single process, and when I open a large number of tabs it really slows down my machine. Considering Chrome's original marketing played up running each tab as a single process, I was surprised to find out that Chrome no longer does this. I tried the flag, but …

Error Output

open -a /Applications/Google_Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google_Chrome --args --process-per-tab

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Fix for: Force Chrome to run each tab as a process

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You should usually an application bundle, not the actual binary within. So I suggest you use: Nevertheless, I cannot reproduce the issue with either Chrome 11, 12 (beta) or 13 (dev). Activity Monitor output when using Chrome 13.0.761.0 dev, launched…

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