T-online is another name of the process file which is called browser.exe. The file is included on the software Hewlett-Packard Printer Assistant Browser. And the file is usually bundled in the installation of the driver of the Hewlett-Packard printer. The file can be usually found in the directory of C: \\ Program Files and has the file size of 1,785,916 bytes in the Hard Disk Drive (HDD). The size of the file may differ when use on various versions of Operating System such as the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. The process contains no icon in the tray and do not have a Graphical User Interface (GUI) which would aid the user to configure the behavior of the process. The file browser.exe does not belong to the Windows core system file. The file has the ability to send and receive data on the open ports to the Local Area Network (LAN) and as well as the Internet.
How can I stop browser.exe and should I?
Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. browser.exe... is used by, If you shut down browser.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop browser.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Hewlett-Packard Printer Assistant Browser, from your system.
After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.
Is this a virus or other security concern?
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What is a process and how do they affect my computer?
A process usually a part of an installed application such as Hewlett-Packard Printer Assistant Browser, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.
Is browser.exe known to be bad for my computer "s performance?
We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.
Hello everyone If you often use Chrome, then you probably know that this browser loves to produce a lot of chrome.exe processes, which are very appetizing to the operative ... The chrome.exe process is only from Chrome. But here's another funny thing, all browsers that are based on it have the same problem. In the same Opera, in Yandex Browser, there are a lot of processes everywhere, because all this is a Chromov family
It makes little sense to fight these processes, because this is normal. Chromium is designed to work across multiple processes. The fact is that each process has its own task, but most of the processes are tabs (this was the case before, now something seems to have changed, or it seemed to me). For example, the Mozilla browser does not have such nonsense, there is one process and there is a browser, that's it, no more. Mozilla also has some additional processes, but to be honest, I just finished them in the dispatcher and then deleted them from the Mozilla folder. And that's it, they don't get me anymore, and the browser works stably without them.
With Chrome, this will not work, well, what would be there to delete something and this will solve the problem. Look, for example, I launched Yandex Browser and only one tab is open there, but at the same time, here are how many browser.exe processes are in the task manager:
That is, there are as many as eight browser.exe processes and what they are doing is known only to the developers! When I launched the Opera browser (only the Express panel was also open), the situation almost repeated itself, here we see six opera.exe processes and one opera_crashreporter.exe:
But what is this opera_crashreporter.exe process? Well, there is nothing secret, as the name implies, this process ensures the delivery of information about errors to the development center. Well, something like this
That Yandex Browser, that Opera, they are all based on the Chromov engine, so there are many processes for them, this is normal. Now only Mozilla seems to be working on one process. But about Internet Explorer, I don't even know what to say, as if it did not have many processes, but now, for interest, I opened ten tabs in it and about the same number of processes were created (I did not count how many). By the way, opening many tabs in Internet Explorer is a direct path to the brakes ...
What to do, what solution is there, or is it all gone? No, nothing is missing, the solution really exists. The whole trick is that there is a special plugin for Chrome, which sends inactive tabs to sleep. You can manually specify how long it takes for an inactive tab to go to sleep. As a result, it turns out that if, for example, you have several dozen tabs open somewhere, but you are sitting on one, then the rest will fall asleep after a while. And the RAM that was allocated for the tabs will be freed. And when you click on the sleeping tab, it will wake up. Well, I hope I explained everything clearly
I've known this plugin for a long time, but I don't use it, because my main browser is Mozilla. I even forgot its name, but I remember well that the plugin worked clearly and without glitches. Digging around on the Internet, I quickly remembered the name of this plugin, it is called The Great Suspender.
Google Chrome The Great Suspender
On the plugin page itself, you need to click on Install:
Then click Install again, already in this window:
After that, you will have an icon in the upper right corner, if you click it, the following menu will open:
Here, to get into the settings, you need to click Settings, well, I think this is understandable. In general, go to the settings, this is how they look:
Now look, the most important option, this is the menu where 1 hour is written, here you can specify after how much time of inactivity the tab should fall asleep after. Then comes the Do not suspend pinned tabs option, this checkbox disables or allows pinned tabs to fall asleep. The second checkbox, Do not suspend tabs that contain unsaved form inputs, is that you shouldn't fall asleep if there are some text fields on the tab, into which you entered some text, well, something like that. There is also a cool checkbox Automatically unsuspend when tab gains focus, it's generally cool, in short, when you move the mouse over a tab, it wakes up automatically.
At the very bottom there is another important option Enable screen capturing, this is so that when the tab falls asleep, then when you activate it later, then instead of the inscription Tab suspended Click to reload there is a snapshot of the page. In general, as you can see, everything is done very conveniently
In the settings, I set the tabs to fall asleep within twenty seconds. What I didn't like is that the tabs don't actually go to sleep, they just get deleted. Well, maybe I'm wrong, but this is my impression. That is, it is the contents of the tab that are deleted, and when you click on the tab, the page is simply reloaded.
I opened Yandex search engine, then, after 20 seconds, the tab became pale (tab title):
When I clicked on the tab itself, there was such an inscription:
That is, one click and the tab is restored. At the top there is also such an inscription as:
Add www.yandex.ru to whitelist
This is to add the site to the whitelist and it will no longer fall asleep.
Well, that is, it all works, I have not noticed any glitches. Now let me do an experiment. I'll open ten tabs in Chrome, just type something in search and open ten tabs. And then I will compare the picture in the dispatcher BEFORE and AFTER. Look, ten tabs are open, there are some heavy sites there, but there are only seven chrome.exe processes in the manager:
Now after half a minute, well, so that all the tabs go into hibernation, I looked at the dispatcher again and saw the following picture:
By the way, I checked all the tabs, everyone fell asleep
So what we see in the second picture. There are also seven processes left, but they already consume much less RAM! How much less, I did not count, but definitely a couple of times less. By the way, below you can still look at the CPU load, as you can see, the load on the processor has also dropped decently (although the effect was probably about the same without the plugin). The tabs really fall asleep, though not as it might seem at first, the content of the page is simply deleted, and then when you click on the tab itself, the page is loaded again. However, I already wrote about this
Well, what conclusion can be drawn? I don't think this is a superb solution. However, if you often have many tabs open in Chrome, then The Great Suspender plugin will help you save some RAM.
What I do not like The Great Suspender, I already wrote that it actually does not hibernate the tab (that is, there is no such mechanism as swapping), but stupidly deletes the contents of the tab. And then the page just loads again. Well, I don't like it, with such success it is better to optimize the work with bookmarks. But I don’t like it, but you might like it
Well guys, everything seems to be, I hope that everything here was clear to you and that this info was useful to you. Good luck and good mood
01.10.2018Looking into the task manager, many users may have noticed the presence of several firefox.exe processes in memory at once. Why do you need a lot of processes and is it possible to disable them - read on.
So, in the task manager today you can see two, three, four, five or more Firefox processes.
Why does a browser need multiple processes? The multi-process architecture increases security and stability: if something fails, it will not drag everything else along with it.
In fact, the multi-process trick has been used by other browsers for a long time, and much more aggressively than Firefox. For example, Chrome and all Chromium-based browsers (modern Opera, Yandex Browser and others) can show dozens of processes in memory in the task manager if you have a lot of tabs loaded.
There is one serious negative point in this: many processes can heavily load a weak computer, and if you are used to working with a large number of tabs or you have many extensions installed, then a PC with relatively current characteristics can already "strain".
Firefox spawns fewer processes than Chrome?
As we said, Mozilla has approached the issue with multiple processes much more carefully than the same Google.
Initially, the developers made for Firefox only one additional process where plugins were displayed (not to be confused with extensions) - plugin-container.exe. So Firefox got 2 processes for the first time.
However, time passed and demanded from the company not to yield to competitors in terms of stability and security. As a result, the long-tested full multiprocessing architecture of Firefox was completed this year.
Firefox does not lose the advantage of lower memory consumption, even if it uses its multiprocessing to the maximum (8 CP - 8 processes for processing content)
Some users of stable versions of Firefox were able to evaluate multiprocessing for the first time this summer, starting with Firefox 54. The final stage here was the fall release of Firefox 57, which was no longer supported. Some of these extensions previously could block multiprocessing, forcing Firefox to use only one process.
However, with processes in Firefox, things are still not the same as in Chrome. If the brainchild of Google launches literally everything and everyone (every tab, every extension) in separate processes, then Firefox breaks down various elements into groups. As a result, there are not so many processes as with the main competitor.
Hence, significantly lower memory consumption and, in some cases, lower CPU load. After all, a huge number of processes in Chromium-browsers can load not even the weakest processor. But Mozilla eventually came up with a compromise and, in our opinion, the most reasonable solution.
In addition, Firefox uses a different tab-on-demand mechanism than Chrome and Chromium-based browsers.
If these web browsers automatically sequentially load tabs from the previous session in the background, then the "fire fox" does this only when explicitly accessing (clicking) the tab, thereby not creating unnecessary processes when they are not needed. It also contributes to less resource consumption.
How can I reduce the number of Firefox processes?
Unlike Google, Mozilla practically allows the user to control how many processes in memory the browser uses.
You see how several firefox.exe processes (or firefox.exe * 32 in case of using 32-bit versions) are hanging in the task manager and you want to remove / disable them - no problem. Open the settings, scroll down the "general" section, reaching the "performance" subsection:
If you uncheck the Use Recommended Performance Settings option, you will be presented with a setting for the number of content processing processes.
There are options from 1 to 7 processes to choose from (if you have more than 8 GB of memory, then more than 7 processes may be offered):
At this point, it is worth making several important clarifications.
First, we are talking about the processes for processing content. If you specify here, for example, only 1 process, then the total number of processes in memory will decrease, but you still will not get only one copy of firefox.exe, because in addition to content, Firefox also outputs interface processing to separate processes.
Secondly, reducing the number of processes makes sense on computers with a small amount of "RAM" and extremely weak hardware. In turn, on more or less acceptable hardware, multiprocessing will not degrade performance, but, on the contrary, will contribute to it, albeit at the cost of increased memory consumption.
Is there any benefit from reducing the number of processes?
If we talk about our own example, then for a PC with 8 GB of RAM, 4 processes were initially proposed for processing content. At the same time, up to 7 processes could be displayed in memory when a large number of tabs were opened.
When we set the number of content processes to 1, restarted the browser and re-clicked all the tabs to load them, predictably only 4 processes remained in memory.
Of these, 3 are intended for the browser itself and 1 process is just for processing content, and the latter is easy to distinguish, because when you open a decent number of tabs, it begins to take up memory for itself much more than the others:
In Firefox, we had 15 different sites open. In the initial mode (7 processes), the total memory consumption was about 1.5 GB. When there were only four processes left, then in total they took about 1.4 GB (see screenshots above).
We repeated the experiment several times, each of them "gain" of RAM was only 100-150 MB. It should be borne in mind that the browser performance from switching to 1 process for content could be reduced. Thus, the sense of reducing the number of processes, as you can see, is very small.
Yandex browser loads the system. At startup, it eats all RAM - 2GB and 100% of the processor. Can only be closed through the dispatcher. After a couple of minutes. RAM is unloaded. I would have killed him, but in 3 months a lot of bookmarks have gathered, it's a pity to lose. Because of this hanging, I can not export bookmarks to another browser. Where does he store them and how to get them out, for example, in Chrome?
Here is the place of his ambush: "C: \\ Documents and Settings \\ alexey \\ Local Settings \\ Application Data \\ Yandex \\ YandexBrowser \\ Application \\ browser.exe"
This hanging bastard slows down a lot! I had to go back to Chrome.
Alexander | 14 February 2018, 04:15
guys, everything is much simpler. the fact is that when you open several tabs, one or 2 of them loads the CPU. the solution is quite simple, press win + esc or run the "browser task manager" (Menu - Additional tools - Task manager (Chrome). Menu - Advanced - Additional tools-Task manager (Yandex Browser), etc.) and find those tabs which load the cpu and remove them from the task manager, the problem disappears as if by hand,
Source: http://it-doc.info/zagruzhen-protsessor-chto-delat/
Ilya Buger | June 27, 2016 11:43 am
the number of open tabs is not affected. I have one open with the series and the percentage is loaded 100%.
Timofey Vintovkin
| April 14, 2016 7:57 pm
Remove the problematic browser and use the normal one. Initially and to this day, for example, I use Opera (original), recently a new version 12.18 was released, how many times I have not tried to switch to another browser - nothing happens due to its complete rejection. Now about the bookmarks. There is a rule, regularly periodically create copies of bookmarks, export them in different formats. You can simply extract the links you want from saved copies. Also saved copies can be imported into different browsers. Those who follow these rules have no problems with losing bookmarks.
Sergey | April 13, 2016 11:23 am
I had one of the add-ons loaded. I found it shutdown one by one. It turned out to be Lingualeo.
Irina | August 4, 2013, 14:22
The browser and I conflict either with the antivirus program ... Or with the system itself ... It loads the system in full and hangs itself ... And this is just such a problem with it ... The same Google works quickly and easily.
Alexey | May 18, 2013 2:34 pm
I have a browser from Yandex every time after the first launch (i.e. after turning on the computer) loads the processor by 20%. But if you close it and open it again, the CPU load drops to 2%. How to deal with this, I don’t know.
Dmitriy | April 20, 2013 2:01 pm
Yandex browser is an unsuccessful copy of Google Chrome. Install Google Chrome and don't worry.
Alex | February 18, 2013 10:09 am
1. "It's not about the browser, it's about the number of open windows." The number of open windows is ZERO, but it hangs at startup and does not allow something else to open.
2. "You put the browser startup file in the wrong folder on your hard drive. Move it to" Program Files ". The path to the browser is very long, so the computer slows down." THREE months did not slow down, and then once and the path became long.
3. "Well, don't be lazy. You open the bookmark ...". DOES NOT OPEN.
Oleg | February 16, 2013, 05:36
Well, don't be lazy. You open a bookmark, copy the address, paste it into a notebook. Then in chrome you paste the link from the notebook and save it. For a long time, of course. But guaranteed. Or try the program http://www.hekasoft.it/backup-restore.php
Igor | February 15, 2013 11:11 pm
You put the browser startup file in a different folder on your hard drive. Move to "Program Files". The path to the browser is very long, so the computer slows down.
Each user wants his personal computer not only to work, but practically by the blink of an eye to perform all the designated tasks. Certainly quite annoying for every operating system. Many begin to argue that the whole problem lies in the fact that many Google Chrome processes are running simultaneously in the Task Manager. Indeed, a large number of processes can affect the decrease in the performance of a personal computer. But why many Yandex, Chrome or Opera processes appear in the Task Manager, not everyone knows, not everyone can name the reasons for sure.
A good antivirus program will help solve this problem. First download it, install it, download the latest anti-virus database, and then scan your computer.
Step 3
If the Task Manager displays a lot of Chrome processes with the exe extension, it is best to demolish the browser, clean up any possible remaining traces, and only then reinstall your favorite browser.
You can remove the "rebellious" browser if you open Programs and Features, find the browser in the list and click on the "Remove" button.
"Tails" help clean many useful utilities, among which CCleaner is the leader.
By the way, one of the reasons why many Opera processes appear in the Task Manager may be outdated.
Previously, Opera and Chrome especially suffered from such a "disease", manifested in a large number of running identical processes.
The developers of this software have made several successful changes to ensure the stability and reliability of the browser. In particular, if several tabs are open in Mozile, one of which suddenly crashed, the entire browser is closed completely.
Of course, such a situation is unlikely to please the user who is in search of the necessary resource, and in connection with the sudden closure of the browser, wasting precious time.
In the updated versions of Opera and Chrome, if a failure occurs on one tab, the rest will definitely not be closed. In addition, multiprocessing data processing, which is typical for updated browsers, is accompanied by noticeable advantages:
- instant memory clearing immediately after closing the tab;
- inactive tabs that are open, but at a particular moment unused by the user, consume a minimum amount of memory, since the operating system automatically puts them in the background.
Unfortunately, these browsers also have disadvantages. Sometimes the total amount of used memory can go off scale compared to the outdated Mozila.
If the problem could not be solved by antivirus software, browser update, or other actions suggested by experienced users, then the only option is to format the hard drive. Of course, if you have to format the system disk, then you will have to set aside time to install a new operating system.
After that, the "bunch" of incomprehensible processes pointing to open browsers will definitely disappear, you can immediately calm down and rejoice for such an excellent and simple solution to the problem. In addition, you can be proud that once again you have managed to gain some useful practical experience in solving computer problems.
