On Sunday, February 13, 2022 01:29:09 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 09:21:00AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > [...] > > > The version of Firefox used in Jessie (and presumably later versions) > > creates (typically mutlitple) files > > ...you mean "processes", not files, right?
Yes -- sorry about that -- wasn't thinking ;-) > > > named "Web Content". I don't know how > > Firefox > > > > decides what to put in each of those (e.g., content from how many tabs), > > but > > Those are, basically, one for each tab, yes. I'm sure they are not one from each tab -- I often have 100 tabs open (in Jessie's Firfox, upto 3000 in Wheezy's Firefox), and typically see between 3 and maybe 8 Web Content pages. Typically they use about 3 to 3.5 GiB VIRT and much less RES (like less than 0.5 GiB), but occasionally I see RES hit figures like 1+ GiB --n when I see those I try to finish what I'm doing on a given web page and then kill that process (I try to finish because it is likely that killing that process will "wipe out" the content of the page I am currently viewing (although I can reload the page). > This is "electrolysis", see > here [1] or perhaps here [2] for a rough overview and rationale. OK, thanks, I'll do that. > Plugins, > media players and those things also get their own process.. > > Now I could be snarky (I've been caught red-handed bashing browsers around > here before ;-) but given the kind of usage browsers get, this design > decision actually seems to make sense. > > Cheers > > [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/04/11/the-why-of-electrolysis/ > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_of_Firefox#Firefox_57_and_above