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What are the ff preferences associated with plugin-container.exe in the newest version of ff? Specifically I would like to edit them in about:config to disable plugin-container.exe

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Lump
Lump

I've done this with a previous version of ff by editing the values of these preferences: dom.ipc.plugins.enabled true

dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npctrl.dll false

dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npqtplugin.dll false

dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npswf32.dll false

dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.nptest.dll true

dom.ipc.plugins.timeoutSecs 45

after I installed ff on my laptop today I cannot find the .dll preferences. And plugin-container.exe continues to plague me. For me this is the one issue with ff since updating from 7. It boggles me as to why you haven't gotten rid of this thing.

I've done this with a previous version of ff by editing the values of these preferences: dom.ipc.plugins.enabled true dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npctrl.dll false dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npqtplugin.dll false dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npswf32.dll false dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.nptest.dll true dom.ipc.plugins.timeoutSecs 45 after I installed ff on my laptop today I cannot find the .dll preferences. And plugin-container.exe continues to plague me. For me this is the one issue with ff since updating from 7. It boggles me as to why you haven't gotten rid of this thing.

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To disable crash protection, go to about:config and set to false all preferences starting with dom.ipc.plugins.enabled. (It is possible that your browser has only that preference entry without any addition.) This will prevent the "plugin-container" process from running and all plugins will run within the Firefox browser process. (from Disabling_crash_protection )


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Chosen Solution

To disable crash protection, go to about:config and set to false all preferences starting with dom.ipc.plugins.enabled. (It is possible that your browser has only that preference entry without any addition.) This will prevent the "plugin-container" process from running and all plugins will run within the Firefox browser process. (from Disabling_crash_protection )


thank you

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Lump
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thank you, worked great!