What is Chrome secretly up to?

esbo

I have noticed that when runing Chrome periodically there is a lot of noisy thrashing of
my harddrive, similiar to when you do big search or run a virus scan.
The other browsers I have do not do this so what is Chrome up to?
I am very sensitive to disk activity, I keep an 'ear open' for viruses etc...and apart from
anything else it is rather annoyinig, I like my PC to be quiet.

So anyone know what it is up to? My guess is 'no good'.

free4440273

OMG, that would almost suggest that it is hogging system resources also - which nearly all folk here suggest otherwise. If you're correct, it does make one wonder...

heggied

My guess would be "probably not a lot, nothing sinister anyway"; cacheing stuff probably.

Remember that Chrome (unlike some browsers I could mention) is completely open source so that if there are any nasty secrets hidden in the code, they won't remain there for long.

tradetime

You may find if it is updating automatically that there are a huge amount of updates as bugs are fixed, also chrome downloads disreputable/dangerous site lists quite regularly.

esbo

heggied wrote: »

My guess would be "probably not a lot, nothing sinister anyway"; cacheing stuff probably.

Remember that Chrome (unlike some browsers I could mention) is completely open source so that if there are any nasty secrets hidden in the code, they won't remain there for long.

It has no more need to 'cache stuff' then any other browser.
Basically if I can't stop it doing whatever it is doing I cannot use it.
Anyway it does not take that loog to 'cache stuff'.

It is 'at it' again, I have only opened the browser 5 minutes ago and now it is
'thrashing away' like mad, you know like 1 gigabyte worth of disk activity, it
actually interfered with me typing in this box such was its lust for resources.

Thats not acceptable to me, I just want to know what it is doing and I would
bet a pound to a penny it is 'spying on me', google is in the businiess of spying
and my320 gig of hard drive is just going to be too tempting for them now
they have got a 'foot in the door'.

heggied

I'd probably look elsewhere for your errant disk activity, really. No unusual disk activity here ...

tomstickland

I don't understand why after 20 years of development, using a computer still turns into a trudge whilst I wait for applications to respond or things write to the hard drive in a frenzy. The internet has to be one of the worst experiences....click back and then a browser sits there for 5s until a page responds etc.

If someone could make a no-frills browser that was lightning fast I'd have it.

esbo

tradetime wrote: »

You may find if it is updating automatically that there are a huge amount of updates as bugs are fixed, also chrome downloads disreputable/dangerous site lists quite regularly.

There is to much disk activity to for that to be the case, my connection speed
could not download that much data in such a short time.
There are not that many dangerous sites on the web, not millions created ever 15 minutes.

esbo

heggied wrote: »

I'd probably look elsewhere for your errant disk activity, really. No unusual disk activity here ...

I know what it is it is Chrome, that is easilly proven, when I stop Chrome it stops
when I start Chrome it starts.
I wil start it now. 9:35, so I expect the trashing will starf in 5 minutes.
I will let you know if it does not.

heggied

The joys of beta software ... let them know about it.

esbo

esbo wrote: »

I know what it is it is Chrome, that is easilly proven, when I stop Chrome it stops
when I start Chrome it starts.
I wil start it now. 9:35, so I expect the trashing will starf in 5 minutes.
I will let you know if it does not.

Yep 9:40 and it is thrashing away like there was no tomorrow.

Quit Chrome and miraculously the the thrashing stopped.