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The Chrome Web Store is both awesome and horrible. While you can find many new extensions to enhance your Web browsing experience, you can also slow things down by adding too many. If you're having trouble picking which ones to keep, taking a look at how much memory each one is using might make the decision a little easier.

Fortunately, Chrome has a built-in tool that will show you the memory usage of each extension. Here's how to open and use it:

When you have a Chrome window open, just click on the menu icon on the toolbar and then go to Tools > Task Manager. If you'd prefer the keyboard shortcut, hit Shift + Esc, which should work from any tab.

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The mixture of new software and hardware improvements is enough to make apps running on the iPhone 5S more crash-prone than those on other iPhone models.

Apps running on the iPhone 5S crash twice as often as those available on the iPhone 5 or iPhone 5C, data from mobile app analytics company Crittercism shows. The information, which was presented to All Things Digital and published on Friday, comes from analyzing "hundreds of millions of apps," according to the tech site.

The reason for the increased crash instances might actually be a hardware problem. Although app developers were able to fix iOS 7 bugs for months while the software was in testing, thus limiting crashes on the iPhone 5 and nearly identical iPhone 5C, they weren't made aware of the iPhone 5S' 64-bit architecture or its M7 coprocessor until the device was unveiled. Those app developers are now trying to catch up.

Still, Crittercism doesn't anticipate the higher crash rate to last forever. In an interview with All Things Digital, CEO Andrew Levy said that "inevitably, over time, those issues get resolved."

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Opera Software CEO Lars Boilesen at Mobile World Congress 2013.

Opera Software is becoming more of a Silicon Valley company.

It has expanded its US operations, tripling its office space to 60,000 square feet through a new office and its acquisition of Skyfire, the company said Thursday.

"Silicon Valley has become one of Opera's most strategic locations to do business and grow our talent base," said Opera Chief Executive Lars Boilesen in a statement. "We will continue our expansion in this region by hiring people in all areas and generating more revenue than ever."

The maker of the Opera browser is based in Oslo, Norway, but its staff of 950 is spread among several offices around the globe. About 200 employees work in three offices in California -- San Francisco, San Mateo, and Mountain View -- and Opera plans to expand that to 300 in 2014.

Although it's best known to consumers as a browser maker, Opera is becoming an online advertising company, too, with operations under its Opera Mediaworks brand. That includes an ad delivery platform, which can be used to host ads online, and three ad networks that link together those with ads to sell with online publishers that have a place to show them.

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From provocative and confrontational socio-political opener "2013" to inspirational lullaby-like closer "It's Alright, It's OK," Primal Scream's new album "More Light" takes listeners on a psychedelic pleasure trip across a range of subjects, emotions, and musical styles: garage rock, dream pop, and techno, just to name a few. Well written by vocalist Bobby Gillespie and guitarist Andrew Innes, the band's first album in five years, featuring guest appearances from Robert Plant and My Bloody Valentine vocalist Kevin Shields, is also their highest-charting in the U.S. thus far, cracking the Top 20.

Four out of six ain't bad: Gillespie (second from left) with most of Primal Scream.

Best known stateside for their tracks "Loaded," "Come Together," and "Movin' on Up" off the groundbreaking "Screamadelica" (1991) album and "Rocks" off "Give Out But Don't Give Up" (1994), as well as for their notorious drug excesses, Scottish alterna-band Primal Scream is back in the U.S. for the first time in four years, on a West Coast mini-tour. Download.com caught up with singer Bobby Gillespie between rehearsals to get the lowdown on the new album and tour, the band's craziest drug-addled escapade, and the singer's iPhone apps.

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