Adobe CEF Helper.exe helping?

Hello,
In my Windows taskmenu I see 'Adobe CEF Helper.exe' five times, with 18, 6, 29, 33 and 37 Mb memory usage. Is this normal? I already checked the post of june
on this subject (so I closed Adobe creative cloud, signed out and in again). Thanks in advance! Marcel

Hi Hoekstra,
Please refer to the thread below where this query has been addressed:
adobe CEF helper
To know more about the same, please refer to the link:
http://processchecker.com/file/Adobe%20CEF%20Helper.exe.html
Regards,
Sheena

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