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michaudg

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Registered: 2009-12-11

Posts: 12

Firefox 54 - Only one "Web content" process [solution]

Hi,

I was looking forward to Firefox 54 for the multi-process enhancement but, after the update, I saw only one "Web Content" process (instead of four), as with Firefox 53. I finally managed to have four "Web Content" processes by settings about:config > dom.ipc.processCount to 4.

With dom.ipc.processCount to 1 (Default):
# ps -e | grep 'Web Content'
13421 tty1     00:00:14 Web Content

With dom.ipc.processCount to 4:
# ps -e | grep 'Web Content'
13991 tty1     00:00:04 Web Content
14027 tty1     00:00:09 Web Content
14031 tty1     00:00:20 Web Content
14040 tty1     00:00:26 Web Content

Solution found on this page: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/06/firef … clip-path/

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,694

Re: Firefox 54 - Only one "Web content" process [solution]

What made you think this was the right place for this? Put it in the wiki or in a blog. It'll just get lost here (as it should).

michaudg

Member

Registered: 2009-12-11

Posts: 12

Re: Firefox 54 - Only one "Web content" process [solution]

What made you think this was the right place for this? Put it in the wiki or in a blog. It'll just get lost here (as it should).

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fi … 22_process