

Do not expect an old overloaded donkey to run like a young racing horse. Problems with the current profile If certain problems with the current Firefox profile start to appear, you should consider deleting the current profile and creating a new one to get rid of the high CPU problem. (My personal approach: do not set the number of content processes higher than the number of available physical CPU cores. + the webpage content displayed in each tab (a lot of webpages today are really bloated resource hogs) The Firefox resource usage in terms of memory consumption and CPU load depends much more on
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Plus I know that Youtube videos are best watched on a more powerful machine. Usually, no more than half a dozen tabs are the maximum. This is no real problem here, because I do not open dozens of tabs at the same time. Without any precise technical data, every reply remains speculative.īy the way, on the machine where I am typing now, which is old and slow and has got little memory, the content processes have been limited to 2. The system information might clear up whether this is the reason for the reported problem. When you specify the PID only the specific instane of. If you have multiple instances of an image open such as multiple firefox.exe processes, running the taskkill /IM firefox.exe command will kill all instances. In this tutorial we have discussed two methods to fix this iss. One example is whenever I want to kill the explorer.exe process I have to use the /F flag or else the process just does not terminate. I suspect the affected machine is old and slow and has got little memory. Firefox Can be troublesome at times and can start multiple instances automatically every time. Reducing the Firefox content processes to 1 is not going to speed up Firefox.
