Firefox locks up on the Onion AV Club website (possibly plugin container problem).

Over the last couple of weeks when I try to look at a page on the Onion AV Club website, Firefox locks up completely. The page will open up but won't finish loading, the hourglass stays on the screen, and the page will not scroll. I find there is no solution for this but to close Firefox altogether. I have no problem accessing AV Club pages with Google Chrome. I suspect the problem may have to do with plugin container, but I don't really know what the cause is.

You can run Java in Firefox.exe instead of plugin-container.exe, but I'm not sure that actually would be better than where you are now.
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(3) If '''dom.ipc.plugins.java.enabled''' is true (bolded), right-click it and choose Reset (or double-click it to toggle).
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