Instead, take the guesswork out and use the Firefox Task Manager. SEE: 10 free alternatives to Microsoft Word and Excel (TechRepublic download) Why would you want to use it? What happens when you have one of many tabs consuming more than its fair share of resources? Do you just guess which one it is and close that chosen tab? What if you're wrong? What if the tab housing your critical work is the culprit and it continues on until it crashes and you lose that work? You could have saved your work, before that process gobbler got too far out of hand. This is an incredibly important (and underused) tool in the Firefox tool box. And with this task manager you can see which of your tabs are causing your system to slow down.

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I don't know how that happened and the thing is it slows down my browser. Skype, Solitaire, Sys info, Task manager, Tux Racer, uTorrent, VLC, Win. It's time to dump Chrome as your default browser on Android Hello When I open Firefox I get multiple firefox.exe processes (usually 4 or 5, the number varies) showing in my task manger. 5.1 Benchmarks For the experiments, we use two sets.

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