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Why do I have 16 tasks running in for Firefox in Task Mgr?

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pmbankowski
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I have 4 tabs open, and my computer is running and running... come to find out, FF is running 17 tasks in the background... why? And what can I do?

Thanks!

my specs Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.21 GHz 16.0 GB (15.9 GB usable)

I have 4 tabs open, and my computer is running and running... come to find out, FF is running 17 tasks in the background... why? And what can I do? Thanks! my specs Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.21 GHz 16.0 GB (15.9 GB usable)
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Paul
Paul
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Hi

This support article should help you to look into this further:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/task-manager-tabs-or-extensions-are-slowing-firefox

zeroknight
zeroknight
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You can open the Firefox task manager by pressing Shift+Esc to see what all the different processes are doing.