How do I properly restart Chrome?

Question

I've been doing some WebGL development, and of course crashing Chrome occasionally along the way.

When this happens, WebGL in Chrome won't work until I restart my PC, which makes me think that even though I close every Chrome window I can see, it's still running somehow.

In Windows I am used to using task manager to ensure an application has actually stopped running, what's the Ubuntu equivalent?

Thanks

[This thread on super user may be helpful](http://superuser.com/questions/131019/killing-all-instances-of-chrome-on-the-command-line) — Mitch, Jun 22 '14 at 02:06
Addressing the question title : Chrome has a special URL *`chrome://restart`* and I think that is quite platform-independent :) — jave.web, Jan 06 '15 at 08:10

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 19 '22 at 01:31

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Try:

killall chrome
# or
pkill -9 -f chrome

If either of the above don't work, then try adding sudo:

sudo killall chrome
# or
sudo pkill -9 -f chrome

edited Oct 19 '22 at 01:31

Gabriel Staples

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Thank you. `killall chrome` alone, withOUT `sudo`, works fine for me! I didn't even have to try `pkill -9 -f chrome`. – Gabriel Staples Oct 19 '22 at 01:32

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 03 '20 at 20:53

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The GUI for this is gnome-system-monitor (see Wolf F.'s answer to Where is the Task Manager?).

Or, optionally, you could go the terminal route (open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T):

ps -ef
kill <process ID of the suspicious process>

(Process IDs are the numbers on the left.)

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Furthermore you can use the top command if you prefer using the terminal. The top command lists your CPU tasks and enables you to kill them (like task manager) – D-unit Jun 23 '14 at 01:28

How do I properly restart Chrome?

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