How to View Memory Usage of Extensions in Google Chrome

What makes Firefox and Google Chrome the most popular and widely used browser is its extension functionality which gives you the ease of whatever work you want to do. By installing a particular extension you can increase you browsing experience. But at the same time these extensions or plugins has side effects as well. The bad thing about these extension is that it can sometime take up lots of memory and bring the browser down and result in hang you work.

So here are the steps to View Memory Usage of Extensions in Google Chrome.

First step is to Open a tab in your Google Chrome browser.
Type “about:memory” in the URL bar and press “Enter”.

It will show a page that details the memory usage of each extension.

Once you know which extension is not performing well, uninstall it or disable it temporarily. In case you have too many extensions installed in your chrome browser then I would suggest you to disable those which are of no use and keep only required extensions only. If you have any problem in doing above steps then you can ask me in comments and do not forget to share this post to your friends on facebook and twitter. By then good bye and stay update.