Questions tagged [background-task]
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How to aggressively throttle background tabs in Firefox using dom.min_background_timeout_value
What are the correct settings to aggressively throttle background tabs in Firefox?
Years ago I stumbled on this post explaining various about:config settings in Firefox for throttling background (and foreground) tabs, but I could never make sense of…
Michael Altfield
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How do I turn off persistent startup apps on Windows 11?
I've tried everything I could find on the web and now I'm all out of ideas.
Some background apps simply refuse to be turned off. Instead, these apps keep showing up running in the background. Right in the task bar, on the bottom right when clicking…
Al John
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OBS Window Not Appearing; Running as Background Task
I am trying to run OBS Studio on my Windows 11 device, but whenever I run the program (from desktop, Program Files, or from the Windows search bar) it opens as a background task, taking up very little memory and CPU.
Task manager screenshot
Running…
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How do I track down what is turning on "Smooth Edges of Screen Fonts"?
This is the setting. This screen is accessed by systempropertiesperformance.exe. This setting needs to be unset for accessability reasons. Every half hour or so, something sets it again. It's not really time based. Leaving the computer idle doesn't…
Joshua
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Vertical scrolling sensitivity with the mouse wheel keeps being reset in the background. How do i figure out what is changing it?
This problem is solved temporarily by manually resetting it to 1, my desired value. I have multiple hid devices and the machine is an asus rog 14 2022 laptop with ati graphics. I am running windows 11. I use a Kensington trackball, and also an…
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Why java consumes about 3GB of memory on the background?
I am just wondering to know what this process stands for and why it consumes that much of memory consistently in my Ubuntu-22.04LTS background?
Is it possible to get ride of it or reduce it's memory consumption?
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Ways to to detect whether a background task is completed in Linux/BSD
I have a script that does several things, one of which depends on availability of a local mount of a remove directory. The first command in the script makes sure the remote disk is locally mounted by calling another with &. The next several things…
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How to know if Tor Browser is running at background in Windows 11?
In some laptop of a member of the family was installed Tor Browser from its official page by a nephew and he didn't do the checksum.
After of the installation when he did do:
press Windows key
write the tor term as search term
Click in the…
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