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I just updated to FF 6.0.1 and when I start FF, I see more than 10 plugin-container.exe files running which is bogging down my system. How do I stop this?

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I just updated to FF 6.0.1 and when I start FF, I see more than 10 plugin-container.exe files running which is bogging down my system. How do I stop this?

I just updated to FF 6.0.1 and when I start FF, I see more than 10 plugin-container.exe files running which is bogging down my system. How do I stop this?

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cor-el
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Are you using Clear Recent History?

If you do then it is possible that Firefox wasn't able to do that and does it on the next start instead.

See "Hang at exit":