This is a question which has been asked many times. So I think this deserves an official answer.
Every new tab and every extension running in the browser has its own process, this is because our browser is based on Chromium. Both Google Chrome, Opera and many other browsers that are built around Chromium also perform in this way.
Why it is good?
"Modern operating systems are more robust because they put applications into separate processes that are walled off from one another. A crash in one application generally does not impair the other applications or the integrity of the operating system, and each user's access to other user’s data is restricted."
"We use separate processes for browser tabs to protect the overall application from bugs and glitches in the rendering engine. We also restrict access from each rendering engine process to others and to the rest of the system. In some ways, this brings to web browsing the benefits that memory protection and access control brought to operating systems"
The above has been taken from the following site. You can read more about this here
https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/multi-process-architectureAvast SafeZone browser uses even more processes because it offers a special security layer called “Pay mode”. That's why you can see another instance of the browser running in your task manager. The Pay mode is prepared for use in the background and takes almost no resources (its basically sleeping until you wake it up by enabling the Paymode) - you can check it in task manager (RAM - working set does not take more than 2MB per process, there is no CPU usage). There are also some other processes such
as AvastNM.exe or ctfmon.exe which are now necessary for interaction with Avast and they are also related to special security features.
In short, there is no need to worry about your computers performance being affected by the amount of processes created by Safezone Browser, as our browser doesn’t use more than what it needs to function. However we have recognized that many people see these processes and believe there is an issue with the browser, therefore we are working on a better way of triggering the Pay mode so there will not be too many processes from the beginning when the browser is started.
Stay tuned!
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