Google Chrome Helper takes too much CPU. Dont have "click to play" option.

[juleshoward1]

I am using a Mac. If I open the Activity Monitor and see that a process called "google chrome helper" is using too much CPU, the only answers on the web is to do this:

Chrome > preferences > settings > show advanced settings > content settings (under privacy) and select "Click To Play" for all plugins.

I don't have the "click to play" option.

My pluggins options are
° Run all pluggin content
° Detect and run important pluggin content (recommended) -- this is the one I have selected.
° Let me choose when to run plugin content

In all the advice on the web they say to select "Click To Play". I don't have this option. How else can fix the google chrome helper so it doesn't take so much CPU?

 

[Raz0rEdge]

You should choose "Let me choose when to run plugin content" which will get you the "Click to Play" functionality.

I usually tend to run Chrome and leave it running for a long time and eventually some tab goes rogue on me and I just restart to get back to square one again. But preventing ads, videos and other things starting up automatically goes a long way to ensure that things don't go rogue..