What Is Google Chrome Helper, and Why Is It Hogging My CPU Cycles?
Short version: the Wired journalist doesn't really understand what they're talking about. I can't believe no-one has pointed this out yet.There is a Google Chrome Helper process for each tab you have open, for each extension you have installed, for each plugin that is currently running and one to talk to the GPU in your system.If you enable "Click to play" and open Chrome with one empty tab you'll still have at least two Google Chrome Helper processes. One for the empty tab and one for the GPU process. If you've installed any extensions you'll have more. There is no way to "destroy the Google Chrome Helper".That article is very badly written.