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Multiple instances of FireFox in the Task Manager

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AaronH99
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Whenever I use FireFox it uses up a large portion of my CPU and when I open up the task manager there are two versions of it running at once. The one with the " > " is the one that shows all of my tabs and I don't know what the other is. Any help would be appreciated.

Whenever I use FireFox it uses up a large portion of my CPU and when I open up the task manager there are two versions of it running at once. The one with the " > " is the one that shows all of my tabs and I don't know what the other is. Any help would be appreciated.

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FredMcD
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http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/22/multi-process-firefox/

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