Firefox locks up / plugin container error appears -- what to do?

Firefox locks up. "Plugin Container has to stop" error appears. Tried reloading FF (3.6), no change

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

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Firefox.exe and plugin-container.exe both take an extremely high amount of memory and slow my PC down. I have often had to end and restart to fix this. What is up with the memory leak?

You may want to know that this is a desktop with a Vista operating system.

That's supposed to indicate it's your plug-ins like Flash that is the problem.
You might try changing hardware acceleration, a setting within Flash either turn if off or on.

How do I get Firefox's "red plugin button" to appear?

I am using Windows XP with Firefox 20.
The Mozilla support pages say to click the red plugin button to change plugin settings.
I have never seen this button appear on Firefox!
When I try to follow Mozilla support instructions, I have to keep opening up more and more windows.
This is so confusing that I don't want to make changes that might make things worse.
Isn't there a simple way to make this magic red plugin button to be on my address bar?

Mozilla support says to click on the red plugin icon on address bar to allow Java. It does not appear on any site I go to. Just as the person originally asking question said : "No, there is just the big arrow & a gra(e)yed out "this website does not supply identity information." I really have only seen that reg plugin button except for on the mozilla support page. It has never appeared when I have been @ relatives' or friends' houses. "

HT1414 We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time. this error APPEARS WHAT SHUOLD I DO??

waht shuold be done to this

There are four possible causes of the activation error:
The activation server is unavailable. Rare, but it happens. Usually fixed within minutes.
Your antivirus or firewall (or your router's firewall) is blocking access to the domain gs.apple.com on ports 80 and 443.
Your phone is jailbroken.
Your phone isn't jailbroken, but the computer you are connected to during the restore or update was used to hack or jailbreak some other iOS device, and its network database was corrupted in the process.
Perhaps this will provide you some clues as to how to proceed. If your iPhone has not been jailbroken, Apple has some troubleshooting suggestions here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3424?viewlocale=en_US
If your iPhone has been jailbroken, you're on your own. We can provide no assistance for jailbroken devices in these forums.
Regards.
(part of the above information quoted with gratitude from Lawrence Finch)

My Firefox freezes but cpu usage and RAM remains OK. I've know that plugin-container is ignoring my proxy settings. firefox hangs until plugin-container reachs to a time-out . ¿How I tell plugin-container about my http_proxy? Thanks!

OS: Win XP SP3
Firefox 3.6.14
LAN connection.
HTTP proxy, but the name resolution is local: You can resolve names and get the IP of servers "locally", but the HTTP request must be made by the proxy server.
'''texto en negrita'''

Ive downgraded from FF4 to 3.6 at this point. The CPU usage is out of control on OS X.

Firefox 3.7a5 plugin-container.exe detected as malware by AVG 9.0

This didn't happen when I used alpha release 4 but happened when I upgraded to alpha 5.
== This happened ==
A few times a week
== Viewing flash-based objects. ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100527 Minefield/3.7a5pre

Check the file with common multi-AV scanners such as [http://virusscan.jotti.org/ VirusTota]l and [http://www.virustotal.com/ Jotti Virusscan].
If those fail to detect a virus in all but AVG, its a false positive. You can report this to AVG. See http://forums.avg.com/us-en/avg-free-forum?sec=thread&act=show&id=395
You could report this issue to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org but since its just in a nightly, I doubt there will be too much concern.
Binaries for release versions are checked / white-listed with AV vendors before release, or they are cleared because they are signed.
See for example https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564389

Plugin-container in Firefox 4; High CPU and Graphics Switching Problems and Workaround

I recently upgraded to Firefox 4, and unfortunately, I've had many problems running Firefox under OSX on my Macbook Pro.
The first problem I came across was that Firefox is now hardware accelerated. This should be a good thing, but due to the way Apple has implemented graphics switching, Firefox caused the discreet graphics card to be used (as seen with GFXcardstatus)
To prevent this, I went into preferences, and disabled "Use hardware acceleration where available" under Advanced>General.
But my problems didn't stop there. Now, it seems Firefox has decided to run plugins such as flash under a separate process called plugin-container in order to protect the browser from plugin crashes. This is a good idea (I believe Chrome and Safari do the same), but even with hardware acceleration disabled in Firefox and Flash, plugin-container still triggered the discreet graphics.
This would actually be acceptable if plugin-container was terminated after I navigated away from the page with the flash content, but this is not what happens. Instead, plugin-container keeps using the high-powered GPU until Firefox is closed.
At this point, I thought that I'd try to force the computer to only use integrated graphics (using gfxcardstatus), but then I discovered another problem:
The plugin-container process was using large amounts of CPU time when flash content was visible in the Firefox window. Typically, viewing just a static flash ad would cause plugin-container to use about 60% (in addition to firefox using about 20%, that means 80% total). Obviously, this was a battery life problem.
After all of this I think I found a temporary workaround, but there are clearly problems here that need to be resolved by the Firefox developers. There are many non tech-savvy users who are no doubt experiencing poor battery life from these problems.
'''My Temporary Solution'''
1. Disable hardware acceleration in Firefox in Advanced > General
2. Disable hardware acceleration in Flash by right clicking a flash element, clicking settings, and then unchecking "enable hardware acceleration"
2. In about:config, search for dom.ipc and set all boolean values that appear to false. This will disable Firefox's plugin-container process for all plugins.
(At this point, if you restart Firefox, Flash will not work at all)
3. Set Firefox to 32-bit mode by getting info on Firefox.app and then checking the "Open in 32-bit mode checkbox"
4. Restart Firefox. Flash should be working with reasonable CPU usage (I had something like 20% with static flash ads as opposed to 80% before), plugin-container will be no more, and your Macbook will no longer switch to discreet graphics for Firefox or Flash.
'''UPDATE:''' It seems that firefox still sometimes causes a switch to discreet graphics for certain flash elements (video players mostly). Also, I've still seen some cases where flash elements are using large amounts of the CPU, even when they are not in the current tab.
I hope this was helpful to somebody, and if anyone has a suggestion for how to make this workaround obsolete or better, please respond.

Ive downgraded from FF4 to 3.6 at this point. The CPU usage is out of control on OS X.

How do I suppress "plugin container for firefox has stopped working" ?

I am doing some Flash programming and using Firefox to debug. Every time I end the debug session from Flash Builder I get the error "Plugin container for firefox has stopped working". Is there a way to suppress this false error message? There is not a problem with the container or any plugins, simply that Firefox thinks the container has crashed because it is being closed by the IDE. I have already had to change several options to suppress false error alerts, but just seem to get new ones like this.

Firefox uses the plugin-container process to run plugin out of the current Firefox process (Out-Of-Process-Plugins) and you may not see the plugin mentioned. Flash uses protected mode by default and that causes two plugin-container processes to be active.
*http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2012/06/inside-flash-player-protected-mode-for-firefox.html
You can check for problems with current Shockwave Flash plugin versions and try this:
*check for updates for your graphics drive drivers<br>https://support.mozilla.org/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration
*disable protected mode in the Flash plugin (Flash 11.3+ on Windows Vista and later)
*disable hardware acceleration in the Flash plugin
See also:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash#Troubleshooting

Mozilla Firefox plugin-container has stopped working properly

Mozilla Firefox plugin-container has stopped working properly. FOR THE UMPTEENTH DAMN TIME... HOW DO I FIX THIS on Firefox 3.6.13!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
''edited by a moderator - https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Forum+and+chat+rules+and+guidelines ''

A possible cause is security software (firewall) that blocks or restricts Firefox or the plugin-container process without informing you, possibly after detecting changes (update) to the Firefox program.
Remove all rules for Firefox from the permissions list in the firewall and let your firewall ask again for permission to get full unrestricted access to internet for Firefox and the plugin-container process.
See:
* [[Server not found]]
* [[Firewalls]]
See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins

Is it possible to disable the plugin-container in Firefox 14?

With an older version of Firefox, I was able to disable the plugin-container by typing in 'about:config' in the toolbar, typing 'ipc' in the search bar on that page, then changing the value of the executable (or whatever it's called) for the plugin-container to 'false', and, finally, restarting Firefox.
However, even after doing that in Firefox 14, it still runs when I use Flash applications. Does anyone know another way to disable the plugin-container? Because in my honest opinion the plugin just causes more lag since it takes up a lot of memory (at one point it was at 100,000 k, which is ridiculous).
Sorry if someone has posted this question before.

I actually found that Flash Player started functioning normally again after I disabled protected mode. I tried toggling the plugin container on and off with protected mode off in flash, and it made no difference in the videos lagging.
In all honesty, this really isn't a problem with Firefox and the plugin container. It's a problem with Adobe using the public to beta test a feature that shouldn't be published just quite yet.

Why does the message '500 internal server error' appear when I use any search engine?

I am able to type a web address and use the internet successfully but when using ANY search engine I get the '500 internal server error' message. This appears if I type in a word to search '''bold text'''and the result is the error message. I have recently uninstalled rapport and hitman pro. Please help.

Did you check your security software (firewall)?
Which security software (firewall) do you have?
A possible cause is security software (firewall) that blocks or restricts Firefox or the plugin-container process without informing you, possibly after detecting changes (update) to the Firefox program.
See:
* [[Server not found]]
* [[Firewalls]]

Plugin container for flash keeps crashing

I am constantly getting plugin container errors. Firefox locks up, then my whole computer eventually freezes up. It is the shockwave plugin that keeps crashing and sticking in my task manager. I have the latest updates. It mostly happens on Youtube and Farmville 2. This is extremely frustrating. Is there some setting I can check or features I can turn off to stop this from happening. I am realistic - things crash. The problem is it is happening ALL the time.

I had a problem with youtube videos crashing and finally sorted it out by disabling the plugin container. Type about:config in the address bar and search for dom.ipc Set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to 'false' I did not need to disable protected mode or hardware acceleration

My firefox keeps giving me the error page on every web site but my internet exploer is working just fine

i have googled why fire fox keeps giving the error can not establish a connection and nothing i have found works i have unistalled it and added it back i have checked the proxy i have check the fire wall and nothing works but internet explorer works fine please help or i will have to delete it for good

Remove all rules for Firefox from the permissions list in the firewall and let your firewall ask again for permission to get full unrestricted access to internet for Firefox and the plugin-container process and the updater process.
See:
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Server+not+found
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Error_loading_websites

Whenever i open my firefox my first window always get hunged.what to do?

I'm a experienced user of firefox..my firefox problem has arised recently..when i click on the firefox icon a blank page is displays and it doesn't work even it doesn't respond to the close command.but when i click on the icon second time it works:( please help me

A possible cause is security software (firewall,anti-virus) that blocks or restricts Firefox or the plugin-container process without informing you, possibly after detecting changes (update) to the Firefox program.
Remove all rules for Firefox and the plugin-container from the permissions list in the firewall and let your firewall ask again for permission to get full unrestricted access to internet for Firefox and the plugin-container process and the updater process.
See:
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Server+not+found
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Firewalls
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode|Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
*Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.
See "Creating a profile":
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Profile_issues
If the new profile works then you can transfer some files from an existing profile to the new profile, but be careful not to copy corrupted files.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox

Plugin-container stops working

When i'm watching a video on Youtube, or just opening up a new site, Firefox freezes. When i'm finally able to close it down through the task manager a window comes up and sais that the Plugin-container have stopped working. Anyone know whats causing this or what i can do about it? (I've tried to reinstall Firefox but the problem remains)

A possible cause is security software (firewall) that blocks or restricts Firefox or the plugin-container process without informing you, possibly after detecting changes (update) to the Firefox program.
Remove all rules for Firefox from the permissions list in the firewall and let your firewall ask again for permission to get full unrestricted access to internet for Firefox and the plugin-container process.
See:
* [[Server not found]]
* [[Firewalls]]
See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins

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