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Why is plugin-container.exe involved in receiving email?

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Why is plugin-container.exe involved in receiving email? The plugin-container.exe is activated and uses abut 20% of CPU while receiving email into my Outlook Express. I use Windows XP Pro on a desktop PC.

Why is plugin-container.exe involved in receiving email? The plugin-container.exe is activated and uses abut 20% of CPU while receiving email into my Outlook Express. I use Windows XP Pro on a desktop PC.

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Plugin-container.exe is part of Firefox, not Outlook Express. If you are trying to fetch an embedded video in a message, that might use the plugin container if Firefox is your default browser, but for links and images I would not expect that to be used.

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The website may be using a plugin like Silverlight or Flash Player to download specific data.

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What kind of data would they download? Would they download it away fropm my PC or download it onto my PC?

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The data could be an image, but more likely video or sound. Downloading means that something is going to your PC. What do you mean download away from the PC?

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"download away from the PC" would be uploading a file to a web server to attach a file to an email or forum post or web page.

Some websites use a plugin like Flash or Silverlight for uploading (multiple) attachments.

Modifié le par cor-el

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What's that "specific data"? The contents of my emails? Yet another reason to stop using Windows or even quit using computers.

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Outlook Express communicates with the internet and renders HTML message content using IE components, not Firefox components. If you exit Firefox before checking email, and restart to a blank page as follows:

Start > Run > firefox.exe "about:blank"

Does plugin-container still show activity?