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Did you know that Firefox has an integrated task manager? Yes, it does. And thanks to this task manager, you can see which tabs are slowing down your system. It’s an incredibly important (and underused) tool in the Firefox toolbox.
Why would you want to use it? What if you have one of the many tabs that uses more than its fair share of resources? Just guess which one it is and close the selected tab? What happens if you make a mistake? What if the tab that contains your critical work is the culprit and keeps working until it crashes and you lose that work? You could have saved your work before this process waste became too out of control.
Tip: You can also type about:performance in the address bar to open the Task Manager page.
The Task Manager can display useful information about the tabs and extensions that are actively working in Firefox. This information is displayed in several columns:
Chrome Task Manager starts in a window, not a tab. Chrome displays memory, processor, and network information for each tab and extension loaded, and supports data sorting.
Mozilla’s Task Manager shows power effects that Google Chrome does not.
Finally, Chrome users can use Shift-Esc to launch the task manager.
Note that Mozilla Firefox already has a feature called Task Manager that focuses on memory usage and power consumption of open tabs and extensions.
However, things are a bit different from Firefox’s future process manager, mainly because the information it provides is mostly useful for engineers and those interested in technical details.
This feature is available from version 78 of Mozilla Firefox and is a welcome addition to a browser that is already at the top of the list for many Windows 10 users.
Is the Mozilla Firefox Process Manager useful to you? Let us know what you think of this feature by leaving us a message in the “Comments” section below.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/task-manager-tabs-or-extensions-are-slowing-firefox
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