Firefox processes

[LucaMs]

How many active Firefox processes do you have with only one page open?

In my PC there are 5. I killed 3 without losing the connection to b4x.com, without any problem!

Now:

 

[hatzisn]

The same is valid for chrome: 8-9 processes for 4 pages.

 

[Erel]

I made a quick test and I see that there is no direct relation between the number of tabs and the processes. It probably uses them as a pool of processes.

And with Google help: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/performance-settings

 

[LucaMs]

I made a quick test and I see that there is no direct relation between the number of tabs and the processes. It probably uses them as a pool of processes.

Yes, later I noticed that even with multiple pages open the number of active processes does not increase.
The main question would be what are so many processes for since killing 3 of them seems like Firefox is running smoothly anyway.
Won't they be useful for spying on the user's actions (sending information secretly)?

In this regard (I should open another thread), I think many of us trust sw which source code is also provided; but who assures us that the compiled and actually used version is the same as the source provided?

 

[Erel]

Won't they be useful for spying on the user's actions (sending information secretly)?

A single process is enough for this.

In this regard (I should open another thread), I think many of us trust sw which source code is also provided; but who assures us that the compiled and actually used version is the same as the source provided?

This is a tough one. Eventually it is a matter of trust and reputation.

 

[ilan]

Won't they be useful for spying on the user's actions (sending information secretly)?

do you have something to hide?

 

[LucaMs]

do you have something to hide?

All myself

 

[LucaMs]

https://docs.microsoft.com/it-it/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer