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firefox loads five times

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Wiggington
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Hello:

Having problems. 1. Firefox loads five times when i go to open it 2. takes 4-5 enters to get firefox to open a web page 3. takes a long time for it to open. 4. says firefox not responding half the time. 5. Uninstalled and reinstalled, removing all firefox files before uninstall 6.Same problems upon reinstall.

Anyone help? Love Firefox. At the point I want to change browsers. t

Hello: Having problems. 1. Firefox loads five times when i go to open it 2. takes 4-5 enters to get firefox to open a web page 3. takes a long time for it to open. 4. says firefox not responding half the time. 5. Uninstalled and reinstalled, removing all firefox files before uninstall 6.Same problems upon reinstall. Anyone help? Love Firefox. At the point I want to change browsers. t

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What do you mean with five times?

Are there five Firefox window opening or do you mean five Firefox processes in the Windows Task Manager?

The latter can be caused by the multi-process feature in Firefox.

When multi-process windows in Firefox is enabled then Firefox will use more memory and may be less responsive.

You can try this to see if it has effect:

  • set dom.ipc.processCount to 1 if it is currently set to a higher value (4)
  • disable multi-process windows in Firefox

You can disable multi-process windows in Firefox by setting these prefs to false on the about:config page.

  • browser.tabs.remote.autostart = false
  • browser.tabs.remote.autostart.2 = false

You can open the about:config page: via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.

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cor-el
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What do you mean with five times?

Are there five Firefox window opening or do you mean five Firefox processes in the Windows Task Manager?

The latter can be caused by the multi-process feature in Firefox.

When multi-process windows in Firefox is enabled then Firefox will use more memory and may be less responsive.

You can try this to see if it has effect:

  • set dom.ipc.processCount to 1 if it is currently set to a higher value (4)
  • disable multi-process windows in Firefox

You can disable multi-process windows in Firefox by setting these prefs to false on the about:config page.

  • browser.tabs.remote.autostart = false
  • browser.tabs.remote.autostart.2 = false

You can open the about:config page: via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.