Manually Pause/Unpause Firefox Process with POSIX-Signals
killall -CONT -m firefox
Suspends all Firefox Threads. Results in Zero CPU load.
Useful when having 100+ Tabs open and you temporarily need the power elsewhere.
Be careful - might produce RACE CONDITIONS or LOCKUPS in other processes or FF itself.
matching is case sensitive.
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pssuspendfrom the "Sysinternals Suite" at MS. Then put it into your PATH by going to the System Settings. ([Win]+[Pause]->Advanced->Environment Variables) Edit PATH, append ";c:\path\to\pssuspend.exe" without the quotes or try this: Open a commandline window ([Win]+[R] cmd [Enter])PATH %PATH%;c:\path\to\pssuspend.exewhich is reset on reboot, or if you have the "setx" program also from MS:setx PATH %PATH%;c:\path\to\pssuspend.exenow you can do the following from the cmdline:pssuspend.exe firefox.exe[Enter]pssuspend.exe -r firefox.exe[Enter]this should do it. The above warning concerning Lockups is even more relevant to the windows environment, as the only way to suspend a whole process is to walk all the threads and hold them individually is more risky than holding the process all at once. This is because on Windows there is no atomic operation to do this. There also is "pausep" out there which i haven't tested but should basically do the same.killall -STOP chromiumkillall -CONT chromium(-m is not available for me either)