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“vaguely looks like it could” and “can” are not the same.

• Black101 6y ago
  closing a browser should definitely close all connections associated with it... that is one reason why I don't use Google applications on Linux... because they (used to) keep a process running even when you closed the application (that was years ago and I don't know how it is today).
  • wolfgang42 6y ago
    I just tried it and Chromium, at least, closes all processes when the last window is closed. But the linked post is talking about a Mac, where the expectation is explicitly that the application keeps running even if it has no windows at present; if you want the process to go away then tell it to quit.
    • Black101 6y ago
      But do they still have that update process running constantly? It would be trivial to send the interesting information once the main process (chrome) is back in memory.
  • stjohnswarts 6y ago
    If you really want to close the browser then by all means exit the application. Otherwise these lingering connections are mostly worthless to anyone but a developer as they eventually drop within a few minutes.