As you will surely know first-hand, Internet browsers are currently a type of program that we use intensively. These do not stop growing and improving based on new updates, where proposals of the importance of Chrome, Firefox or Edge come into play.
In this way, the aforementioned browsers are increasingly important in our use of the PC. But not all are advantages here, since in many occasions they present some serious disadvantages. An example is the excessive consumption of resources that these programs do in general terms. That is why in these lines we are going to focus on one of the proposals that has recently arrived, Microsoft‘s Edge Chromium .
This is the new version that replaces the Edge that was launched together with Windows 10 and that had so little acceptance. But as with its most direct competitors, the consumption of resources continues to concern the majority. In fact, if we open the Windows Task Manager when loading a website, we will see a good number of processes running. What’s more, sometimes we can find dozens of these elements belonging to the web browser.
Microsoft explains the processes that Edge opens in Windows
That is why now those from Redmond explain the reason why a single loaded web page opens so many Windows processes. Specifically, they point out that current browsers are designed based on a multi-threaded architecture. This means that the browser is divided into different processes that are opened and that are basic. Thus, on the one hand we find the browser process. This is the main process that helps to work the open windows and tabs. Control the browser as such including the address bar and the back and forward buttons. It also directs access to other processes such as network requests and file access.
On the other hand we have the rendering processes, which are those that control the way in which the websites are presented in a tab. This is achieved by running the code provided by the website itself. These handle the HTML , CSS, JavaScript, images, etc. Therefore the use of resources of each rendering process varies according to the content of the site. In addition we have the GPU process, which is responsible for communication with the graphics processing unit. Therefore it takes care of all the tasks of this element. This is essential for speeding up graphics-related calculations and sends the output to the monitor.
Other critical processes that Edge opens
We also have the utility processes that are in charge of elements such as audio playback, network service, video capture, etc. In this way Edge can control access to these resources and coordinate the use of system resources. For their part, the plug-in and extension processes contain active plug-ins such as Adobe Flash . While the extensions contain the active extensions. Each of these executes the code provided by the plug-in itself or the extension. Thus the resource usage varies depending on the code provided.
For its part, the crashpad process tracks the operation of the rest of the processes in Microsoft Edge. If the program crashes, it will help capture and transmit crash reports to Microsoft servers to correct the bugs . At the same time some elements of the same web page may have their own processes for reasons of reliability and security . As we can see, each and every one of them is important for the operation of the program and explains the high consumption of resources that sometimes occurs.