Will watch all running Widgets and:
Search the Widget Gallery for the Widget
Check the Widget Gallery for updates
Show PID and memory usage
Kill runaway Widgets
Show change in memory usage (check for memory leaks)
YWE 4 has changed the process model so this wil no longer work.
To fix this will require quite a bit of programming effort so I'm afraid I can't see this working with YWE 4 in the near future.
i actually stumbled across yer Widget Watcher cuz i added a Google API that sucks in News on different Tags - Widget is one - but it seems to be a Real Memory Hog & my Blog Page seems to load much Slower since adding it*
No it is developed especially for yahoo desktop widgets. I am not familiar with google gadgets but if they are javascript that runs in the browser it may be possible to use the following leak detector along with firefox to see if they are leaking: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/memusage.html#help-leakdetector