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Tested in chrome # 56.0.2924.87 and canary #58.0.3010.0 on win 10.0 and 7 and not able to reproduce the issue.Please find the screen shots for your reference.
Steps and Observations:
Navigate to "wowhead.com" and search with text and observe memory usage, It went from 120mb to 200mb only.

@chasebabb: Could you please let me know if i have missed anything and if possible, create anew profile with out extensions and recheck once and let us know the observations of the issue which would help us to triage the issue further.

Thanks in Advance.

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I decided to use a recording to show you vs a static screenshot.

Stable - #56.0.2924.87 (64-bit)

For this demo I used stable. The problem is still present but does not happen as quickly as it would in Beta or Dev builds.
I did note that it took far longer to reach the 800mb as I presented at first. With the new user, it took around 3 minutes to reach 800mb.
Even then, it still continued to climb, albeit slower, the problem did not go away with a new user and no extensions.

The page loads new ads every so often, Each time this happens, I get ~100mb spike in a second. Even while not loading ads, memory continued to climb. But you can see I went from 140mb to over 500mb in the period I showed you.
Should I try another website?

https://youtu.be/YqW17FXw7zs

I effectively can't use Chrome on this computer with this SSD. It's bizarre.

I purchased an SSD the other day and fresh installed Windows 10. All the correct drivers are installed and not malfunctioning. I took the SSD out and put the HDD back in again today. Booted Windows, all was normal. This issue does not at all exist when using it. The most Chrome used was 300mb on wowhead.com. I put my SSD back in and removed Chrome for now. After some searching around, it seems Chrome does not play nice with SSD. If it helps its a Samsung 850 Evo.

Thanks for your reply and detailed recording.
Tested as per provided recording in chrome # 56.0.2924.87 and canary #58.0.3012.0 on win 10.0 and 7 and not able to reproduce the issue.Please find the screen cast for your reference.

@chasebabb:Could you please let me know if i have missed anything and if possible, please check in latest version #58.0.3012.0 which would help us to triage the issue further.

Thanks in Advance.

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Stable: 800mb+ memory leak / usage
Beta: 500mb+ memory leak / usage
Dev: 400mb+ memory leak / usage
Canary: Memory leak / usage not an issue

https://youtu.be/nDwEfDtf4HQ

It seems as if the problem is taken care of in #58.0.3012.0. Which is good news. Tested on the SSD. Again, there is no continual memory usage on the HDD in any version.

Thanks for your reply.
Tested in chrome # 56.0.2924.87,Dev #58.0.3004.3, Beta #57.0.2987.54 and canary #58.0.3012.0 on win 10.0 and 7 and not able to reproduce the issue usage went from 120mb to 220mb  and after that deceasing the usage. Unable to attach the screen cast due to huge MB file.

@chasebabb:Could you please let me know if any similar test url of the issue which would help us to triage the issue further.

Thanks in Advance.

I have figured it out! An embed iframe, from a third party, that Wowhead recently added to the bottom of every page was the culprit. It was not directly related to Chromium. This issue was present in Chromium based Opera as well. Firefox and Edge were not as bad. Since the block memory and cpu usage have normalised in all tested browsers. You can mark this is resolved or something. I'm going to reach out to the Wowhead team. Thanks for the help.

Thanks for your reply.Marking the issue as Won't Fix as per comment #10 added by reporter.Please feel free to raise a new issue if sill facing.

Thank You.