It's going to open on mulitiple instances even if you don't have any 
other tabs open.  Turning it off makes pages load slower.

On 5/2/2019 2:47 PM, Steven Green wrote:
> or I could learn to close tabs I'm not using, more often :-)
> 
> every time I click on something, and the laptop starts thrashing its' 
> way to that, I look and see that I've got 8 or 10 tabs open.. the cache 
> is completely used up.. there are 15,000 to 20,000 file handles.. all 
> stuff that I haven't used for several hours.. all stuff that I'm done 
> with and/or that'll have to be refreshed anyhow
> 
> -- 
> 
> Steven Green
> Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
> 
> http://www.OasisTradingPost.com
> 
> Collectibles and Memorabilia
> Vintage Lego Sets and Parts
> - and Paradox support, too
> "Mark Bannister"  wrote in message 
> news:5ccb430e$1@pnews.thedbcommunity.com...
> 
> FYI you can turn that off.  It will actually open commonly used pages on
> other threads.  So you can have one tab open and 5-6 instances running.
> https://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/22/multi-process-firefox/
> 
> On 5/2/2019 1:00 PM, Steven Green wrote:
>> I'm running an old HP Mobile Workstation laptop that only has 8 meg of 
>> memory.. and most of my memory issues seem to come from using still 
>> Mozilla, since they changed it to open a new thread for every tab
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Steven Green
>> Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
>>
>> http://www.OasisTradingPost.com
>>
>> Collectibles and Memorabilia
>> Vintage Lego Sets and Parts
>> - and Paradox support, too
>> "Mark Bannister"  wrote in message 
>> news:5ccaee8a$1@pnews.thedbcommunity.com...
>>
>> I seem to have issues with some computer hardware running Pdox9 with Win
>> 7.  Seems random as to which computer runs Pdox OK and which ones seem
>> to crash Pdox and get "too many files" errors and other memory issues.
>>
>> What kind of minimum hardware does everyone suggest?
>>
>> -- 
>> Mark B 
>