RE: [PHP] Google Chrome
| From: | Wolf | Date: | Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:33:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Google Chrome | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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> You can at least track memory + cpu usage through the Task Manager
> (Ctrl-Alt-Del + T on most distros). In the Task Manager, I also noticed
> that GoogleUpdate.exe is running even when Chrome.exe is not. This made
> me a bit curious, so I went into msconfig (the Microsoft GUI utility for
> modifying startup programs, services, and system INI files) and saw that
> GoogleUpdate.exe had been added to the list of programs to run on
> Windows startup.
>
> I hate, hate, HATE it when programs install resident agents that eat my
> memory and perform background network activity. Rrgh! Points taken away
> from Google for this app's EULA and its methods. Slick otherwise, though
> (aside from the lack of XMLDOM instantiation support for Javascript)...
startup monitor -> sure it runs at startup, but that little bugger keeps an eye on my startup and
asks me if I want to allow my startup to be modified.
:-)