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Just a quick question for the big brain people of this forum, anyone know any tricks on how to decrease chromes cpu usage, specificly while watching youtube vids?

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Do you have hardware acceleration enabled or disabled in Chrome? Enabled will use your GPU for video playback while disabled will use CPU. 

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28 minutes ago, Caroline said:

Yeah, uninstall it.

I'm not joking, it's the only way. That's how that piece of bloatware is made and you can't do anything to make it not devour resources.

Too bad everyone's beloved Firefox is just as bad, and in some cases, worse.

And yet people will still beat off to it and say Chrome is some shitty resource hog.

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57 minutes ago, GopherTv said:

Just a quick question for the big brain people of this forum, anyone know any tricks on how to decrease chromes cpu usage, specificly while watching youtube vids?

which CPU do you have though?

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Use Firefox. If I am watching Youtube videos my CPU usage is about 15 to 20% and my ram is about 300MB. Firefox has really improved. It is much better and faster than it used to be. Try out the portable version, no installation needed, which is what I always use. Chrome is a resource hog. And Firefox is much better privacy wise. I have no complaints with it.

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29 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

Too bad everyone's beloved Firefox is just as bad, and in some cases, worse.

And yet people will still beat off to it and say Chrome is some shitty resource hog.

Firefox sucks, but that doesn't mean Chrome doesn't suck as well. As crazy as it may be, Microsoft finally created a great browser in Edge. Same rendering engine as Chrome (i.e. top notch), but uses far less resources than both Firefox and Chrome.

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And Firefox is much more customizable and has a much larger selection of extensions than Chrome.

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Other browsers will likely won’t change anything. I suspect it’s HW acceleration being off, but it could also be the absence of HW acceleration being available for video playback. How old is your system? If it’s more than a couple of years old, your system might be too old to have decoding support. You could get an extension that forces YouTube to serve videos in H.264 to mitigate this.

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We need to know the specs of your computer to know if Chrome really is the issue or not. 

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On 7/6/2021 at 2:45 AM, BondiBlue said:

We need to know the specs of your computer to know if Chrome really is the issue or not. 

Sorry for the SUPER LATE response but umm i have an i7 8700k, gtx 1080, a solid nvme ssd, and 64 gigs of ram lmao

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