On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 at 08:54, Gary Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > Why are there so many firefox processes? I was expecting one process > per tab. Clearly there are many more. Why do some of the processes > have so many threads? How much memory does firefox want?
Firefox increasingly uses multiple processes as a measure of isolation between different fault and security domains; if there is a vulnerability or a bug in some code, it need not impact all the other tabs necessarily. You can ask Firefox for more information about the processes it has started by entering "about:processes" and "about:memory" into the URL bar. I believe the process ID is in parentheses on each line in the list that represents a process. Cheers. -- Joshua M. Clulow http://blog.sysmgr.org _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
