Very high cpu usage by chhrome/firefox even when they aren't on.

[Asc1005]

I installed chrome and was using it normally (it was runnin fine) but sometimes it starts using about 80% of cpu in the background, even when its closed (I mean completely) 

so I thought its something with chrome, so I installed firefox and the same thing is happening with it also!

 

but I use edge as my main browser which never had a problem like this ever.

anyone knows how to fix it ?
 

[DontBeSillyWrapYourWilly]

Your specs?

 

I have this old Asus laptop which i use to watch Youtube on while in bed and it's so week and old that Chrome alone uses ~75% of RAM and 90% of CPU so.

[jaslion]

Seems like windows is having an issue closing your applications.

 

What I would advise here is:

 

Just to be sure install malwarebytes and let it do a scan

uninstall firefox and reinstall it

 

Then message back if something changed.

[Asc1005]

21 minutes ago, DontBeSillyWrapYourWilly said:

Your specs?

 

I have this old Asus laptop which i use to watch Youtube on while in bed and it's so week and old that Chrome alone uses ~75% of RAM and 90% of CPU so.

I use a pretty decent pc with r5 3500u and 12gb ram so I think its not an issue