plugin-container.exe : what is it, why is it necessary, can I delete it
Continued from the "plugin-container.exe : what is it, why is it necessary, can I delete it" thread:
1) When people say Firefox uses up a lot of CPU/Memory, they are telling the truth. Tools like Task Manager and Process Explorer show you how much CPU/Memory Firefox is using up. Stop calling people liars when they say Firefox is using up X Memory. Stop making baseless accusations like "you're running other programmes that are causing your CPU to skyrocket and Firefox to freeze". Task Manager and Process Explorer don't lie. Take yourself off the thread because you're not helping anyone, you're creating anger and hatred, you're basically trolling. If you have no valid advice to offer, keep your mouth shut and stay away instead of launching into the "you're a liar" nonsense.
2) Stop typing in caps
3) Refrain from using profanity and ad hominem attacks
4) If you claim you're abandoning Firefox for another browser, fine: now get off the board and go away instead of posting inflammatory hatred against Mozilla since you're no longer using Mozilla
5) Stop attacking and/or ignoring the advice of Mozilla representatives like Morbus
6) Morbus: the Firefox Safe-Mode advice you frequently dispense is the most rejected advice because most people do not want to mess with their browsers, especially people who are not not knowledgeable about safe-mode, add-ons, disabling, etc. I fully agree that people must learn how to diagnose the problems on their own and find solutions on their own, but not all people are capable of learning how to do that. Computers are easy for many people, but not all people. The Safe-Mode solution appeals to a minority of people who are comfortable with picking apart their browser and picking apart other things to find solutions, not the majority, who fear making things worse.
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7) Stop telling people to remove add-ons and plug-ins and scripts. Firefox was made specifically to enable to build their own browsers. Firefox was made for the purpose of allowing people use all the add-ons and plug-ins and scripts they wanted. No other browser offers that range of add-on/plug-in/script support. Removing the add-ons and plug-ins and scripts eliminates the purpose of Firefox. If Mozilla representatives want to insist that removing add-ons and plug-ins and scripts are the solution, then Mozilla is telling us that its browser is no different from IE or Chrome, in which case Mozilla has given us a reason to stop using Mozilla.
Firefox w/o the plugin-container.exe has my cpu running variously at between 2% and 16% but at 100% running a ustream.tv flash page. It is definitely the flash page though causing the problem, not Firefox because its worse using IE, Opera and Chrome (non-flash CPU usage is higher).
Plugin-container.exe has been giving me the same problem the last couple of days and seems worse today. It has my computer loaded up up so much that I can't do anything like I used to. That being said, I like Firefox and want continue using it so hopefully the problem will be resolved before to long. I'm using Firefox version: 3.6.4 / Operating system: Windows XP. If someone can tell me what I need to do, I'd appreciate it! Thanks
Me too. Plugin container exe. seems to be causing my computer to freeze up, overload etc. I was hoping to just delete the exe. and be done with it, but my search function didn't find it. Is it net based only?
This is what I can see: Normally, browsing non-flash sites etc, Firefox working memory useage is around 210000 -250000K. Plugin container around 70000K. Everything works fine, no lag.
Any time I'm on a flash site (eg playing a flash game on facebook) the memory usage for the container hits around 250000-270000K and everything becomes as responsive as treacle. This problem didn't exist before Plugin container. It does now, therefore: plugin container = problem. I can't turn it off, because then I can't play my games at all, but the lag is getting really tedious.
I wont repeat what everyone else said, but my FF is using 166K with 2 Mozilla.com tabs open, and - get this - 18 separate plugin-container.exe processes running simultaneously.
I suppose I will have to switch to IE9 every now & then. I won't install another addon or two to try & solve the problem.
Maybe by FF 4.2 it will be, I hope!
I wont repeat what everyone else said, but my FF is using 166K with 2 Mozilla.com tabs open, and - get this - 18 separate plugin-container.exe processes running simultaneously.
I suppose I will have to switch to IE9 every now & then. I won't install another addon or two to try & solve the problem.
Maybe by FF 4.2 it will be, I hope!