How to use Mozilla Firefox's Process Manager

Mozilla Firefox is a very popular web browser that is constantly updated.
On update brought the Process Manager, and we will be showing you how to access it.
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Mozilla Firefox has been around for some time now and has eventually made its way into being one of the most popular web browsers on the market today.

This is mostly due to the fact that it is extremely modern, resource-efficient has extensive add-on support and the fact that it is frequently updated by its developers.

Speaking of which, one update that Mozilla Firefox received included a new feature called the Process Manager.

The guide below will show you in a step-by-step manner what you need to do in order to access the Process Manager. More so, we will be providing you with some information about what does it do.

How do I access the Process Manager in Mozilla Firefox?

Accessing the Process Manager in Mozilla Firefox is incredibly simple, simply follow these steps:

Open a new Mozilla Firefox tab

Type in the following string in the address bar:

about:processes

A new tab containing the Mozilla Firefox Task Manager should appear

As you can see from the screenshot above, this version of Process Manager separates the data into different columns

Browser
Socket
GPU
Web, extension
Privilegedabout
- This comes with one web reading for each open tab within the browser

Mozilla’s Process Manager vs Task Manager

Keep note that Mozilla Firefox already has a feature called Task Manager that focuses on memory use and energy use of open tabs and extensions.

However, things are a bit different from Firefox‘s upcoming Process Manager, mostly because the information that it provides is useful mostly to engineers and those interested in technical details.

Available with Mozilla Firefox version 78 and later, this feature is a welcome addition to a browser that is already at the top of the list of many Windows 10 users.

Do you find Mozilla Firefox‘s Process Manager useful? Let us know what you think about this feature by leaving us a message in the comments section below.

Alternative browsers with similar tools

Another amazing web browser that has a similar feature is Opera GX, and this one is recommended to common users, not just devs.

This is all because Opera GX advertises itself as the world’s first web browser for gamers, and thus comes with gam-boosting tools like a memory and RAM limiter via the GX Control Panel.

This way you can enjoy running other programs in the foreground, without having to worry that your browser is eating up all of your RAM, regardless of how many tabs are open.

More so, GX Control lets you monitor in great detail which process is taking up the most memory, and which are the ones that take up most of the bandwidth.

Opera GX

The ultimate gaming web browser comes with built-in tools that help you monitor and limit both memory and bandwidth usage.

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