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When I have 15 tabs total (all windows) open, WHY do I have 38 Firefox processes running in my Task Manager???

petpro
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When I have 15 tabs total (all windows) open, WHY do I have 38 Firefox processes running in my Task Manager???  And these processes are using resources (disk and memory) according to Windows Task Manager.  What am I missing and is there a way to correlate the processes running with the tabs in the the Firefox window.  Is Firefox misbehaving or are the websites the culprits?  Seems to me that Firefox should be shielding the user from nefarious (behind the scenes) resource robbing activity on my computer, unless of course, Mozilla is the culprit.

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siffemcon
Making moves

Totally normal; all browser use multi-process now. Go to about:processes via the address bar.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/firefox-multiple-content-processes/