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Loaded 5.0.2 on my Win7 PC this morning. Now, each time I start firefox, I have 2 Firefox.exe *32 processes running in Task Manager. Why?

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Loaded 5.0.2 on my Win7 PC this morning. Now, each time I start Firefox, I have 2 Firefox.exe *32 processes running in Task Manager. Why?

Loaded 5.0.2 on my Win7 PC this morning. Now, each time I start Firefox, I have 2 Firefox.exe *32 processes running in Task Manager. Why?

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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

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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

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Thank you! I guess it would have been nice if a message would have appeared, during or just after the install, advising me (and other users) of this improvement. But, now I know....

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True, so true.