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Hard to find which process eats memory

Finding which process, extension, or background service uses the memory is hard, because parents and children are split across views.

Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.

5 public reports · first reported 11 August 2014 · last reported 29 January 2026

Idea report · $19 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Developers and home users see a service, browser extension, or child process consuming large memory, but the tools split trees and show only single processes.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 5 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

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