I'm wondering if there's a way to bring focus to a process that's in "activity monitor".
Specifically, I've got a bunch of Google Chrome processes and I'm trying to figure out which process correlates to a particular browser/tab.
MacOS – way to switch to the selected process in activity monitor
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Best Answer
Not really. The thing is, most of the time, processes in Activity Monitor don't actually have a UI that you can 'switch' to. Using the Google Chrome example, think of those 'Google Chrome Renderer' processes as background tasks, and you just see the result of them in the main 'Google Chrome' process. Activity Manager does not have a way to identify how to tie these 'background tasks' to the parent GUI.
However, for your particular problem, Google Chrome actually provides you with a Task Manager that will help you out:
You can use this to identify which tab is using up too many system resources. You can also use the Process ID from the Chrome Task Manager to match the process up in Activity Monitor (Process ID == PID).