On Thu, 2014-06-05 at 12:07 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 09:59:08 -0600 linux guy wrote:
I ran a "ps aux | grep firefox" only to find a ghost firefox instance still running. I killed it.
This seems to be epidemic in browsers. If you use chrome for a while you'll see it there too.
At least a little while ago, chrome was even worse when many tabs were open, IIRC because it consumed a huge number of threads. Not sure if that issue has been fixed recently, though.