On 27 Sep 2025 at 10:28, Barry Scott wrote: From: Barry Scott <[email protected]> Subject: Re: After recent upgrade of firefox find it has as many as 50 lines with ps -ef | grep firefox?? Date sent: Sat, 27 Sep 2025 10:28:02 +0100 To: [email protected], Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]>
> > > > On 27 Sep 2025, at 03:06, Michael D. Setzer II via users > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Wondering if others are noticing this? Also seems to be processing > > slower? > > Do you have lots of tabs open? > > When I start up and have looked a small number of tabs I see: > > $ pgrep -f firefox | wc -l > 14 > Open firefor with no tabs open, but a blank display screen pgrep -f firefox | wc -l 11 $ pgrep -f firefox 4489 4509 4582 4585 4641 4650 4701 4744 4751 4759 4816 $ ps -ef | grep firefox msetzer+ 4489 1 10 20:01 ? 00:00:11 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox msetzer+ 4509 1 0 20:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib64/firefox/crashhelper 4489 9 /tmp/ 10 12 msetzer+ 4582 4489 0 20:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -contentproc -ipcHandle 0 -signalPipe 1 -initialChannelId {9b843c60-ab5a-475c-9b53-0940bf51a249} -parentPid 4489 -greomni /usr/lib64/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appDir /usr/lib64/firefox/browser 1 forkserver msetzer+ 4585 4582 0 20:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -contentproc -parentBuildID 20250919093955 -prefsHandle 0:39832 -prefMapHandle 1:275114 -sandboxReporter 2 -chrootClient 3 -ipcHandle 4 -initialChannelId {b9fcb927-136e-4308-b507-dbd51783695c} -parentPid 4489 -crashReporter 5 -crashHelper 6 -appDir /usr/lib64/firefox/browser 2 socket msetzer+ 4641 4582 0 20:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -contentproc -isForBrowser -prefsHandle 0:39966 -prefMapHandle 1:275114 -jsInitHandle 2:223368 -parentBuildID 20250919093955 -sandboxReporter 3 -chrootClient 4 -ipcHandle 5 -initialChannelId {6796498a-fe99-4a50-8afe-374c3e64ee24} -parentPid 4489 -crashReporter 6 -crashHelper 7 -greomni /usr/lib64/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appDir /usr/lib64/firefox/browser 3 tab msetzer+ 4650 4582 0 20:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -contentproc -parentBuildID 20250919093955 -prefsHandle 0:39966 -prefMapHandle 1:275114 -sandboxReporter 2 -chrootClient 3 -ipcHandle 4 -initialChannelId {e3bc6e47-7c68-4c94-b6c4-70f06fd959b7} -parentPid 4489 -crashReporter 5 -crashHelper 6 -appDir /usr/lib64/firefox/browser 4 rdd msetzer+ 4701 4582 1 20:01 ? 00:00:01 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -contentproc -isForBrowser -prefsHandle 0:50173 -prefMapHandle 1:275114 -jsInitHandle 2:223368 -parentBuildID 20250919093955 -sandboxReporter 3 -chrootClient 4 -ipcHandle 5 -initialChannelId {21529f0b-e57c-46a0-b66c-a6c5c8b328fe} -parentPid 4489 -crashReporter 6 -crashHelper 7 -greomni /usr/lib64/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appDir /usr/lib64/firefox/browser 5 tab msetzer+ 4744 4582 0 20:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -contentproc -parentBuildID 20250919093955 -sandboxingKind 0 -prefsHandle 0:51136 -prefMapHandle 1:275114 -sandboxReporter 2 -chrootClient 3 -ipcHandle 4 -initialChannelId {234c1681-135e-48de-a050-ae52f98a39c0} -parentPid 4489 -crashReporter 5 -crashHelper 6 -appDir /usr/lib64/firefox/browser 6 utility msetzer+ 4751 4582 0 20:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -contentproc -isForBrowser -prefsHandle 0:45184 -prefMapHandle 1:275114 -jsInitHandle 2:223368 -parentBuildID 20250919093955 -sandboxReporter 3 -chrootClient 4 -ipcHandle 5 -initialChannelId {42c014f3-e0f7-446d-a978-b0979b0cee85} -parentPid 4489 -crashReporter 6 -crashHelper 7 -greomni /usr/lib64/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appDir /usr/lib64/firefox/browser 7 tab msetzer+ 4759 4582 0 20:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -contentproc -isForBrowser -prefsHandle 0:45184 -prefMapHandle 1:275114 -jsInitHandle 2:223368 -parentBuildID 20250919093955 -sandboxReporter 3 -chrootClient 4 -ipcHandle 5 -initialChannelId {787f9027-6c84-446b-b528-510fb9d5f80f} -parentPid 4489 -crashReporter 6 -crashHelper 7 -greomni /usr/lib64/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appDir /usr/lib64/firefox/browser 8 tab msetzer+ 4816 4582 0 20:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -contentproc -isForBrowser -prefsHandle 0:45184 -prefMapHandle 1:275114 -jsInitHandle 2:223368 -parentBuildID 20250919093955 -sandboxReporter 3 -chrootClient 4 -ipcHandle 5 -initialChannelId {3924a4f0-3a1f-4762-86f9-99e597bf0110} -parentPid 4489 -crashReporter 6 -crashHelper 7 -greomni /usr/lib64/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appDir /usr/lib64/firefox/browser 9 tab msetzer+ 4981 3422 0 20:03 pts/1 00:00:00 grep --color=auto firefox > As I click on tabs I see the process count go up. > > I recall that there is a new feature in Firefox to shutdown tabs that are not > in use, > but have not looked into how that works yet. > > Barry > > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. 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