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KERR
Making moves
Status: New idea

I really like the built-in Task Manager in Chromium based browsers (Chrome/Edge/Vivaldi):

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In Firefox, we have about:performance but it has some shortcomings:

  • Not easily discoverable (Chromium has a keyboard shortcut and a menu item)
  • Columns do not sort continuously
  • FF uses Energy Impact while Chromium shows CPU (although this may not be a big deal)
  • Chromium includes Network column 😍

Would love to see this kind of functionality in Firefox!

3 Comments
flob
Strollin' around

BTW, you can use about:processes which provides more info. It doesn't have a network column sadly.

KERR
Making moves

Coming back to this - another advantage of the Chrome task manager is that it opens in a floating mini window so you can keep it open while browsing/poking around.

In Firefox about:performance/about:processes are tabs so you can't easily browse at the same time (guess you could open it in an entire new FF window though).

Luca_Pavan
Familiar face

Moreover while monitoring tabs and extensions with Task Manager some entries keep disappearing and reappearing for the whole session giving the impression that this tab is unstable.