14 DAY TRIAL // Chromium evangelist François Beaufort announced today that Google's Chrome OS engineers have managed to implement a new feature that will let Chromebook owners monitor the CPU usage, RAM, and zRam statistics in real-time.
The feature was implemented in the Chrome Canary experimental channel and can be easily enabled by opening the Google Chrome web browser and accessing the chrome://flags/#sys-internals flag. There you'll be able to monitor your Chromebook's hardware and see what's eating your memory or CPU during heavy workloads, all in real-time.
"Chrome OS users can monitor in real-time their CPU usage, memory and zRam statistics thanks to the new internal page chrome://sys-internals in the latest Canary," said François Beaufort in a Google+ post. "For that, enable the experimental chrome://flags/#sys-internals flag, restart Chrome, and enjoy watching real-time resource consumption."
Coming soon to a Chromebook near you
Like with all the other experimental features, the new internal page for monitoring your Chromebook's hardware will soon be available to users on the Chrome OS stable channel, but not until it passes all the tests. So if you want to use this feature right now, you'll have to install Chrome Canary. Otherwise you need to wait a few weeks for it to hit stable.
In related news, Chromebook owners will soon get another cool new feature, such as the ability for the mouse cursor to stay hidden while on top of a video when the native video controls have faded out, giving them a more immersive Chrome OS experience. This feature, and many others, are available in the latest Chrome Canary if you want to take them for a test drive, but there's no telling when they'll land on the Stable, Beta or Dev channels of Chrome OS.