Thread: IE8 Beta 2 out!

i did install chrome 2 days back... but was just turned off by the blue color and the googleupdate.exe process that kept running in the background (have 1.2 gigs of ram but hate to see processes run without my permission).... otherwise yes the browser is quite good. after all its google...

also u can't get a new tab with the double click shortcut on ff n ie... which i'm very much used to by now... so just stickin to ff for now... will give chrome another shot once the final comes out.

ya i understand that googleupdate.exe starts up when you open chrome but thats a service which comes up even if you use google toolbar and there is nothing to worry about that service coz it never puts any load on your processor

Originally Posted by smoothvibes

ya i understand that googleupdate.exe starts up when you open chrome but thats a service which comes up even if you use google toolbar and there is nothing to worry about that service coz it never puts any load on your processor

Actually this process is there even if you restart your computer.... and keeps n running in the background.

The problem does not lie in processor or ram usage (at any time i've got 800mb free... using 1.2 gig on xp.. overkill my last post)... its this behavior that i dislike... running in the background without the consent of the user, and if it does not use the processor then uselessly?? i do not use google or any toolbar.

I even stopped using adobe reader (that massive resource hog) because of its startup processes. started using foxit reader instead.