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Browser crashes with plugin container exception, w/ & w/o selenium

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shekhar.nik
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Hi , 

  I am Automation developer , I am using firefox with selenium , every time selenium tries to close the browser it throws an error "Plugin Container has stopped working"

Problem event name :APPCRASH Application Name: plugin-container.exe Application version: 31.0.0.5310 Fault Module Name: Mozalloc.dll Exception code :80000003


Then when I have tried performing it manually , then too I had faced same issue, let me know if there is any fix available, I don't want to roll back whole project on older version, which might have some more issues pending to be resolved.

Regards Shekhar

Hi , I am Automation developer , I am using firefox with selenium , every time selenium tries to close the browser it throws an error "Plugin Container has stopped working" Problem event name :APPCRASH Application Name: plugin-container.exe Application version: 31.0.0.5310 Fault Module Name: Mozalloc.dll Exception code :80000003 Then when I have tried performing it manually , then too I had faced same issue, let me know if there is any fix available, I don't want to roll back whole project on older version, which might have some more issues pending to be resolved. Regards Shekhar

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cor-el
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Do you need the plugin-container and plugins to do the testing or would it work without plugins?

If plugins are used, what plugins in particular?

shekhar.nik
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current test cases are static and just verifies the content of page and displayed buttons.

shekhar.nik
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Any solution , I have kind'f tried everything by now . except deleting the plugin container from hard drive, I am not sure if I'll do that and it will appear again once the browser will get initialized , any Mozilla expert online to reply with atleast one good suggestion.

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shekhar.nik
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I have deleted the plugin.exe , no pop up anymore , I am sure that I have to pay the price later when I will have to play the videos , but as no support from Mozilla I had to do it . No thanks to you Mozilla support , you have done a good job ruining this product.

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cor-el
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You should be able to achieve this by disabling the plugins (Never Activate) on the about:config page to prevent loading this plugin and the plugin-container. If you need to create new profiles then you would have to use a user.js file in the browser\defaults\profile folder to disable the Flash plugin (plugin.state.flash = 0).

For the plugin-container you could use:

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