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Plugin-container is a cpu hog. I need to end the program. Harmful?

AnonymousUser
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Cpu usage is 100% due to plugin-container.exe

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== Firefox update

Cpu usage is 100% due to plugin-container.exe == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == Firefox update

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the-edmeister
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http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins ---

Try to disable IPC. You can set the prefs dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.* to false on the about:config page to disable the plugin-container process to see if that helps. dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npswf32.dll (Flash) dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npctrl.dll (Silverlight) dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npqtplugin.dll (QuickTime)

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the Enter key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website. If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.

Double-click each of those prefs to toggle them to false, then restart Firefox.