[oi-dev] Memory use with Firefox

[Gary Mills]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 11:36:05AM -0800, Joshua M. Clulow via oi-dev wrote:
> 
> Firefox increasingly uses multiple processes as a measure of isolation
> between different fault and security domains; if there is a
> vulnerability or a bug in some code, it need not impact all the other
> tabs necessarily.
> 
> You can ask Firefox for more information about the processes it has
> started by entering "about:processes" and "about:memory" into the URL
> bar.  I believe the process ID is in parentheses on each line in the
> list that represents a process.

The "about:processes" URL seems not to work in my version of firefox.
All I see is the title bar.

"about:memory" does work, but the amount of memory used seems
quite small:  There are no gigabytes of memory shown.  I wonder if all
memory is displayed there.


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-Gary Mills-		-refurb-		-Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-