Parent and child daemons impede functions of microsoft and Firefox.
Hello, I'm not a programmer, but have noticed three processes of Firefox child daemons and one parent daemon running simultaneously with the Firefox execute file on a microsoft platform. That's five running processes for one Firefox network session. This method uses valuable resources on a limited microsoft platform. Why do we need 4 parent and child processes along with the primary execute file?
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Firefox moved to a multiprocess architecture to improve program stability. In particular, it isolates web content and some more privileged content from the main process. Is that really "necessary"? Maybe not, but it is how it works. There is a setting to control the number of web content processes*, but there still will be some more privileged processes.
Thank you, Mr. Jscher. Your response was somewhat helpful allowing me to change the default 8 processes down to 1 process in the Performance options. However, that method only eliminated one of the four extraneous child and parent processes, leaving two child and one parent process left using memory resources. Is there a way to have only the original Firefox execute file running?
I don't have that problem on my Linux platform.