Recent answers to Google is keeping like 50 pipes running AFTER i close chrome and use firefox ... help!https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/13148152020-11-24T06:58:01-08:00Could you test in Firefox's Safe Mode? In its Safe Mode, Firefox temporarily deactivates extensions,2020-11-24T06:58:01-08:00jscher2000https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1314815#answer-1370365<p>Could you test in Firefox's Safe Mode? In its Safe Mode, Firefox temporarily deactivates extensions, hardware acceleration, any userChrome.css/userContent.css files, and some other advanced features to help you assess whether these are causing the problem.
</p><p><em>After making sure that no Firefox or Chrome processes are running:</em>
</p><p>Hold down the Shift key when starting Firefox.
</p><p>A small dialog should appear. Click "Start in Safe Mode" (<em>not</em> Refresh).
</p><p>If you browser for a while, do you observe any difference?
</p>yea i checked that, made sure there were no still-running firefox.exes ... and yes, it could be a Q 2020-11-24T06:18:36-08:00welshnew50https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1314815#answer-1370362<p>yea i checked that, made sure there were no still-running firefox.exes ... and yes, it could be a Q for Google, but 1 - if they're doing something suspicious, they'd deny knowing anything about it, and 2 - i think i noticed later, that they were only running, WHILE firefox was running.
</p><p>so my best guess was that they've added something someWHERE,.. *shrugs* in my computer that runs WHILE firefox is running, so that they can see what i'm looking up RE commercial metadata-sales privacy invasion type activities,
</p><p>i note also, that i have stopped using chrome for the most-part, so might this be? a kind of ... if-someone-stops-using-chrome-we'll-put-these-in-somewhere-where-people-won't-notice-them way, a bit like hidden malware backup locations that have to be searched for when not uninstalling properly,.. or i dunno, maybe worse, like embedded in windows user-configuration files, AS critical files FOR windows, in directories that get checked and RUN everyboot,.. but aren't meant to be used by anyone BUT microsoft?
</p><p>as in, abusing the trust of windows automatically loaded each boot architecture, for their COMPETITIVE interests, now that i'm almost entirely only using firefox?
</p><p>that was the kind of suspicion that i thought u guys might be interested in. i think if i worked for firefox, i'd be wanting to know what they are.
</p>I don't know what those are for, but Chrome may keep something resident to be able to start up faste2020-11-21T06:17:21-08:00jscher2000https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1314815#answer-1369542<p>I don't know what those are for, but Chrome may keep something resident to be able to start up faster. There wasn't anything obvious in Task Manager? On Windows 8+, you may need to use the Details tab to find processes that don't have a visible window.
</p><p>Um, and also, this really is a question for Google, not Mozilla...
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