Ended process plugin-container.exe and now it refuses to run again

OK WELL plugin-container.exe was using 95% cpu and i basically could not do anything, so i ended the process.
i figured it would run again when i reopened firefox but as you can see this wasn't the case.
So well, now i'm trying to figure out how to get it to work again since i can't even go on youtube without it apparently haha.
I've tried restarting firefox, my computer, manually running it, and uninstalling and reinstalling firefox :/ and nothing is working.
Not sure what to do?

Make sure that your firewall doesn't block the plugin-container precess.
See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins

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