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Re:Memory Usage of Firefox with e10s Enabled by shabble on Friday February 12, 2016 @01:24PM (#11089239)
This is definitely not always the case in my experience, although that might be due to some addon (I have quite a few) hanging the main FF thread/process.

I'd love to see a 'task manager' that can show CPU usage as well as memory use by individual tabs, because occasionally I see CPU use spike (noticed by laptop fans spinning up) and am reduced to closing random tabs in the hope it'll get better.

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Re:Memory Usage of Firefox with e10s Enabled by JohnBooty on Friday February 12, 2016 @01:43PM (#11089405)
> This is definitely not always the case in my experience, although that might be due to some addon (I have quite a few) hanging the main FF thread/process.

My experience matches yours.

I think chimeracoder means that's the way Firefox works if e10s is enabled, which wouldn't be true for you unless you've explicitly done so. (I haven't enabled it either)

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