Ironic that shortly after reading this, chrome crashed on me. I've only got 2 extensions loaded other than the 3 Google doc ones that came pre-loaded.
One thing I did notice the other day is that chrome will reload webpages on it's own even if they don't have focus. I was running an express.js app on localhost and periodically I would see traffic in in the logs even though I wasn't interacting with it. It may just be enforcing some ttl/cache header that was automagicly set, but it will make me close my browser more often.
It might be worth installing firefox and see if it behaves the same.
One thing I did notice the other day is that chrome will reload webpages on it's own even if they don't have focus. I was running an express.js app on localhost and periodically I would see traffic in in the logs even though I wasn't interacting with it. It may just be enforcing some ttl/cache header that was automagicly set, but it will make me close my browser more often.
It might be worth installing firefox and see if it behaves the same.