title: Retrieving memory consumption from a chrome extension
body: <p>we developed a simple crawler for Chromium which works fine for the fist ~12h and then crashes. I believe that this is due to memory consumption and it eventually running out of such. However, this is hard to debug because once the extension has crashed, chrome://memory does not show information on how much it had used anymore.</p>
  
  <p>Thus, I was wondering if there is any chance to get the information that is shown on chrome://memory and frequently report it to a central server for monitoring? XHR on chrome://memory doesn't work since </p>
  
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    <p>Cross origin requests are only supported for HTTP. </p>
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  <p>I am working with Chrome 37.0.2016.0 canary.</p>