12.04: How to end all chrome related process after closing browser?

Question

Even after closing Google Chrome, there are many background processes running and consuming lot of memory. How do I end all the processes when I close Chrome? Following is a picture of processes after closing Chrome browser.

Answer 1

I had the same problem plus chrome was putting an Icon on the menu bar.

Come to find out their is a setting in Chrome that appears to keep chrome in memory all the time.

Make chrome completely shut down.

Within chrome:

Settings:

Show advanced settings...

Unchecked "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed"

I noticed the icon in the menu bar a couple of days ago must have happen during an update.

Mark

Answer 2

killall chrome will do the needful.

Answer 3

That setting under Chrome config doesn't close the proccesses after closing Chrome. In fact that changed nothing.
I have the same problem here and I don't want to open a terminal window and running a line of code every time I close Chrome.
This is, in my opinion, a flaw of development. There is another topic with the same discussion: How can I stop accumulated Google Chrome background processes?

Answer 4

Have you tried this?

pkill chrome

Or maybe this?

while pgrep chrome ; do pkill chrome ; done

Answer 5

On my Ubuntu 14.10 box, I found out that the last remaining process was chromium-browser --pinch-zoom enabled. After disabling this, the problem stopped for me. I had enabled this in regular Chrome for the touch screen support and I think it synced it somehow. Anyway, try that. I imagine this will work for regular Chrome as well.

Good luck!