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[Discuss] memory management



I think plugin-container doesn't get launched until it needs something
like the flash plugin.

On 6/23/2015 10:03 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> "ps x | grep plug" yields nothing but the "grep" process.
> 
> "ps x -o pid,ppid,cmd | grep 12345" (where 12345 is firefox's PID) yields
> nothing but the "grep" process.
> 
> I'm running Firefox 38.0.5, which is the latest release. I use a script I
> wrote long ago to fetch the latest tarball from ftp.mozilla.org and build
> an rpm from the tarball. Perhaps there's been a change in recent versions
> of firefox, or a difference between the vanilla tarballs and the rpm
> packages that the distro builds?
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 8:48 PM, John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Shouldn't plugin-container be running if firefox is running?
>>
>>
>> ?'top' truncates mine to 'plugin-containe'?, but that does contain 'plug'.
>>
>>
>>
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