MinimizeToTray revived (MinTrayR) Beta About MinTrayR Beta is a replacement for the popular MinimizeToTray extension which is no longer actively developed. MinimizeToTray is claimed by the author not compatible with recent Firefox and other Mozilla applications. By installing MinimizeToTray Revived you’re able to minimize your Firefox windows to a Firefox icon in the system tray.
If you are on Windows C: Users YourUsernameGoesHere AppData Roaming Microsoft Windows Start Menu Programs Startup Any program shortcut you put in this directory will start automatically every time you log in. To start a program minimized, go to its Properties and change 'Run: Normal window' to. For some reason, my system seems to ignore this setting, but maybe you're lucky and yours isn't an ignorant asshole.
To prevent Firefox from really closing when you 'X it out', has already suggested a handy add-on that you can set. To be fair, I don't think this extension does exactly what you say Chrome does - I believe Chrome keeps a low-resource process running in the background instead of the full browser+webpages+extensions one (or something).
This extension 'only' removes Firefox's icon from your taskbar and moves it to your tray, nothing more. You'll need a program called 'xdotool' for it, which is most likely in your repository, so sudo apt-get xdotool should install it (or search for it in your graphical installer, if you prefer that). And then just add the following command to your startup applications: firefox & (sleep 5 && xdotool windowminimize $(xdotool getactivewindow)) You can also check, if this command works, by running it in a terminal.
What this command does, is start up Firefox, wait 5 seconds to give Firefox time, and then minimize the active window (which should be Firefox). The 5 seconds is completely arbitrary, so that might be too long or too short, depending on how fast your Firefox starts up. If you want to minimize Firefox to the system tray, there's also an application called 'alltray' with which the command should just be ' alltray firefox'. That doesn't properly work for me, actually, but I think, that's just a problem on my system, as it seems to work for others.
In this case, with 99.9% probability, the cause of the phenomenon is in FireFox, more precisely in the incorrect operation of the set of addons installed by you, and Process Hacker simply shows the fact of its presence on your machine. Programs running on the Gecko engine (FireFox, SeaMonkey (Mozilla Suite), Ntscape Navigator, Thunderbird, Sunburd, NVY / Mozilla Komposer) run an additional PluginContainer.exe process in which addons (extensions) work and some of them, for example MinimizeToTray revived can preempt Gecko -application when it crashes or minimize it to the tray. I would first look at the list of add-ons installed in FireFox, especially since not all of them are written correctly and the problems with them are due to the cut-down of the Gecko engine in FireFox - where there are several pieces of add-on for SeaMonkey, under FireFox you must first put a hundred additions as crutches to restore the working capacity of Gecko, and then put those couple - three addons that are needed for work since FireFox was originally conceived as an extremely truncated implementation of the browser from the package Netscape Navigator. But to crash any process, including. FireFox can be combined with Shift-Del.