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Why do I have four, sometimes five foxfire.exe running on my computer and do I need them?

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There are four or five firefox.exe shown running in the task manager all the time, it slows my computer down, they are always running using up data.

There are four or five firefox.exe shown running in the task manager all the time, it slows my computer down, they are always running using up data.

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More than one process is normal for the current Firefox. http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/22/multi-process-firefox/

Multi-process Firefox is codenamed "e10s". https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/multiprocess