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Running over 30 instances and taking over 3gb of memory

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corythomas.home
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Firefox is currently running over 30 instances of itself and taking up over 3gb of memory

'''Firefox is currently running over 30 instances of itself and taking up over 3gb of memory'''

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Terry
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What do you mean by 'instances'. You can reduce the number of processes by opting out of the fission experiment. In about:config change the following preference to false. fission.autostart You probably need to restart the browser for that change to take effect. The browser should change the following preference to 3: fission.experiment.enrollmentStatus

It is normal to have a number of processes. I have random RAM issues also.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-or-cpu-resources https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/task-manager-tabs-or-extensions-are-slowing-firefox