On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 09:21:00AM -0500, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote: [...] > The version of Firefox used in Jessie (and presumably later versions) creates > (typically mutlitple) files ...you mean "processes", not files, right? > named "Web Content". I don't know how Firefox > decides what to put in each of those (e.g., content from how many tabs), but Those are, basically, one for each tab, yes. This is "electrolysis", see here [1] or perhaps here [2] for a rough overview and rationale. Plugins, media players and those things also get their own process.. Now I could be snarky (I've been caught red-handed bashing browsers around here before ;-) but given the kind of usage browsers get, this design decision actually seems to make sense. Cheers [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/04/11/the-why-of-electrolysis/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_of_Firefox#Firefox_57_and_above -- t
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