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Load Background Tabs Lazily by kgersen

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Review by Firefox user 12531918
by Firefox user 12531918, 6 years ago
Is it possible to limit CPU usage of tabs loading in background? Ideally - to decrease their process priority.

Developer response

posted 6 years ago
There should soon be an about:config setting named dom.ipc.processPriorityManager.enabled that will reduce priority of background processes. It's not quite ready yet. You can read about it here:

https://mikeconley.ca/blog/2018/09/20/firefox-performance-update-11/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1522879
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476981