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I just switched to chrome some days ago and I am very happy with it, but there was one thing with Firefox I really liked: The plugin container. From time to time the flash player hangs up and with Firefox I was very happy that I just had to kill the plugin container, reload the page and everything was fine again.
Now, with chrome, the browser itself hangs up, so I have to restart chrome - and with this all of my 5 windows and 40 tabs.
So, is there an extension for chrome, that adds a new layer between the browser and the flash player, so that I only have to kill the flash player itself?
Ethan Leroy
Posted 2012-02-06T23:41:57.273
Reputation: 496
Hey! Great! Thanks for this hint! For me it's just Shift+ESC. That's even better than the Firefox's plugin container - or does Firefox also have such a built-in task manager? – Ethan Leroy – 2012-02-07T00:11:26.000
On my Win 7 machine - Shift-ESC brings up Chrome's Task Manager and Ctrl-Shift-ESC brings up the Windows ask Manager. – yosh m – 2012-02-07T01:40:10.053
Sorry I had these wrong, it is in fact just shift-esc. Chrome is completely multi process, and spins off each individual tab and plugin into a separate chrome.exe, killing these when the tab is closed to prevent memory leaks. To my knowledge, Firefox simply keeps plugins out of process and hasn't moved to a fully multi-process architecture yet.
Details on Chrome's implementation can be found here
@TedO'Hayer Fixed! ;) – iglvzx – 2012-02-07T17:39:57.120
Sweet! Thanks. Chrome keeps surprising me with things like this. – Fiasco Labs – 2012-02-07T20:56:55.253