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Cant eject external hard drives because firefox is running multiple processes in the background that blocks it

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every time i want to eject my external hard drive windows says that the drive is in use. and after some research i found out that the processes are from firefox, why? Heres a screen https://i.imgur.com/YaFnLzK.png

every time i want to eject my external hard drive windows says that the drive is in use. and after some research i found out that the processes are from firefox, why? Heres a screen https://i.imgur.com/YaFnLzK.png

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What format is the ext HDD? If it is ntfs rather then fat32 that makes it longer to release the drive.

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Its NTFS. But.. it doesnt matter... I just want to know what FIREFOX as a BROWSER have to do with my EXTERNAL 'HDD'? Besides, its not even one process, its one process per tab.