Frustrating plugin container freeze/crash ONLY on YouTube

I've been trying to diagnose this one for a week now and I've done all but pull my hair out over it. I run a very basic, bare bones setup that has always been rock solid for as long as I've been using FireFox.
The machine is: Windows XP SP3, Firefox 11, Flash 11.9.
Addons are: Adblock Plus 2.1.2, Adblock Plus Pop-up 0.4, Flash Video Downloader 3.9.3, Status 4 Ever .17, Password Exporter 1.2.1
But out of the blue, plugin container will freeze for 30-45 seconds if I press the back button on my MOUSE while hovering over a YouTube video. I can either sit and wait the 30-45 seconds and plugin container will crash and the browser will start moving again, or I can forcefully stop the process in task manager. This is ONLY on YouTube videos, on their respective pages and does not happen on embedded videos on other websites. Every other flash video site from Hulu to adult work fine.
And when I say hovering over the YouTube video I mean literally, if one pixel of my mouse pointer is touching the video and I press back on the mouse, it freezes the entire browser. If I alt+left arrow it's fine. If I press back on the browser button it's fine. If I click the back button on my mouse while hovering anywhere else on screen, it's fine.
The only "solution" I've found is setting dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to false in about:config. But this is not a real solution for me, as I need dom.ipc.plugins.enabled set to TRUE in order to keep functionality in other things and it just straight up messes up little things all over other webpages when it's off.
I have tried every possible combination of solutions I can think of and have no clue what to do next except switch browsers. This is what I've done so far:
· Disabled protected mode for flash in FireFox
· Disabled hardware acceleration in FireFox AND Flash
· Uninstalled/Clean installed every version of Flash down to 11.1
· Disabled all addons
· Uninstall/Clean installed FireFox 11 and ran it fresh
· Uninstall/Clean installed FireFox 26 and ran it fresh
· Updated mouse drivers
· Ran without mouse drivers
· Changed USB port mouse was in
· Did all of these same changes on my Windows 7 partition, still freezes/crashes
I don't know what else to chalk this up to other than it being a direct problem between the plugin container process and something that YouTube has changed in the backend recently that the masses would never see. Is it possible there's some hotkey being assigned to the mouse back button within YouTube's video player now, and when pressed it kills the plugin container? Doubtful but I'm at the bottom of barrel here.
Any information would be helpful, thanks.

I have the same exact problem. I have a 5 button mouse and and anytime i click the side back button back when hovering on a youtube video it freezes

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I have had this problem for a few months. I am using version 3.6.12, have always updated when noticed, couldn't find a resolution for the problem and have been waiting to see if the fix came with one of the updates, but it continues. Firefox will just stop working, if a video is playing, the sound still goes on for a while, but I notice the crash if I go to a screen and it fades upon a click with the revolving wheel turning... then note that my Windows Vista system say, FIREFOX NOT RESPONDING. Always trying to resolve the problem, Windows only comes back with the Plugin Container has crashed. I have had problems with the Adobe Flash player crashing too. I was told in a Windows Vista forum that the plugin noted to be for Windows Vista 32 bit was the same and good for Windows Vista 16 bit.... but I tend not to believe this with all the problems I am experiencing here now.

I read a few similar reports, however, referencing specific plugins, and one frequently mentioned in replys was the Adobe plugin. The suggestion there was to downgrade to 3.6.6. I have since done this, I will update if it worked or not. I disabled automatic updates of Firefox due to this problem. I hope to see Firefox notify users of the fixes the next updates will contain. With all due respect to Firefox, if this downgrade works, I will hesitate to update until I know this problem is corrected as it is to severe and troublesome. Thank you.

Firefox Plugin Container keeps crashing.

Every god damn day.
Every time I surf.
Almost every time I go on youtube.
For the past months.
Resetted Firefox about 20 times.
Started without any plugins.
Uninstalled and reinstalled.
Resetted Firefox 20 times more.
WHAT ELSE CAN I DO? Do I have to start paying to get a decent BROWSER? Or should I switch to Chrome?

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I am having problems with the plugin-container freezing FF when I quit it in the task manager FF starts working again. I am also getting this problem as well...347542828.exe

The exe gives this error report
''347542828.exe
szAppName : firefox.exe szAppVer : 2.0.1.4120 szModName : hungapp
szModVer : 0.0.0.0 offset : 00000000
C:\DOCUME~1\Mom\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER84c3.dir00\firefox.exe.mdmp
C:\DOCUME~1\Mom\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER84c3.dir00\appcompat.txt''
And this...
"szAppName : 347542828.exe szAppVer : 0.0.0.0 szModName : ntdll.dll
szModVer : 5.1.2600.6055 offset : 000192f9 "
I need to get rid of it or an explanation of it because it is a major hindrance. Its more alarming that I can't find anything on it.
Please help me fix this.

Have you submitted the hint button issue to the site for comment?
It is hard to debug script problems without access to the page... If you want to research it yourself, start by opening the Error Console (Tools menu) and clicking the Clear button. Then reload the page and check the Console for any errors (red icon). These can indicate when scripts are not loading correctly. Then try to click the hint button and see whether that triggers any additional errors.
The error messages generally are most useful to the page's programmer, but sometimes can reveal enough information to create a user solution (e.g., running a script through the GreaseMonkey extension that repairs the problem).

Why does plugin-container.exe so often crash when closing PDF files?

When I load multiple PDFs in Firefox to check their content for errors one by one, closing one PDF tab to reveal another PDF tab very often causes plugin-container.exe to crash, which means I have to reload each remaining PDF tab to view the remaining files. This of course defeats the purpose of opening more than one at a time, and actually adds about 5 times as many clicks to the whole process because I have to clear the error and reload each page, then it might happen again or might not. It doesn't happen every time I close a PDF, but about 1 in 4 times.
I realize I have two versions of Acrobat installed (Acrobat 9.5.5 and Reader 11.0.10), and thus two Firefox plugins, but for the record this same thing happens on other computers that just have Reader or just have Acrobat, so it's not an issue of conflicting plugins. Though I did notice you aren't allowed to disable just one or the other -- deactivating one deactivates both. At first it seems not to, but if you reload the plugins page, you'll see both are actually off.
Windows coughs up the following error report when plugin-container.exe crashes, but Firefox says nothing, I guess because the plugin-container is a standalone app:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: plugin-container.exe
Application Version: 36.0.4.5557
Application Timestamp: 550d0883
Fault Module Name: xul.dll
Fault Module Version: 36.0.4.5557
Fault Module Timestamp: 550d07d2
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 011f734a
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Appreciate any help available in resolving this crash.

Somehow this bug came up on my radar yesterday later in the day: the first two comments indicate different plugins, and the third refers to the Acrobat plugin:
<blockquote>This seems to happen if Adobe Reader is used for displaying PDF documents (pdfjs.disabled set to true and Preferences > Applications > PDF to "Adobe Reader (in Firefox)"). Opening two tabs displaying PDFs and closing one crashes the other one. Was able to reproduce with Firefox 36.0.1 and Adobe Reader plugin "Adobe Acrobat 11.0.10.32". When I tried to reproduce it later again in the same profile (or on Nightly and Beta), the tab didn't crash.</blockquote>
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1113190
Sounds like your issue, but it's puzzling that they got a tab to crash and in your case only plugin-container.exe crashed.

Firefox is crashing at random times, sometimes pointing to plugin-container.

I typically have Firefox running all the time. Recently it has been crashing at random times. Some of the crashes leave messages saying that plugin-container has crashed. Some are reported and leave behind a record in about:crashes, but in other cases the program just dies.
I tried to locate the crash reports online but could not. It says it's searching and then says "Oh Noes"...
I've updated to 3.6.13, the latest Java. I often run other browsers as well (Chrome, IE) for certain tasks. Can those interfere with Firefox???

It looks like the Crash Reports server is overloaded right now and "times out" with that '''''Oh Noes!''''' message.
Try disabling the Java Quick Start extension, and maybe the McAfee Site Advisor extensions. Two other extensions that are known to be problematic in Firefox are already disabled.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions
Other browsers shouldn't affect Firefox or cause it to crash, even if they are running at the same time as Firefox - unless you are maxing out your RAM or CPU. I have had 4 different version of Firefox running simultaneously, along with 5 or 6 other browsers on a fairly basic AMD 2.2 GHz processor with 2 GB of RAM, on WinXP - without problems or Firefox crashing.

Why does plugin-container.exe hog so much cpu usage?

When FF is running with some application (ie flash or maybe shockwave) or some type of embedded function, the cpu usage for plugin-container is generally between 60 and 80 percent. This causes extreme lag and reduced functionallity. Quite frankly it is extremely annoying to have things run so slowly.

Somehow this bug came up on my radar yesterday later in the day: the first two comments indicate different plugins, and the third refers to the Acrobat plugin:
<blockquote>This seems to happen if Adobe Reader is used for displaying PDF documents (pdfjs.disabled set to true and Preferences > Applications > PDF to "Adobe Reader (in Firefox)"). Opening two tabs displaying PDFs and closing one crashes the other one. Was able to reproduce with Firefox 36.0.1 and Adobe Reader plugin "Adobe Acrobat 11.0.10.32". When I tried to reproduce it later again in the same profile (or on Nightly and Beta), the tab didn't crash.</blockquote>
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1113190
Sounds like your issue, but it's puzzling that they got a tab to crash and in your case only plugin-container.exe crashed.

Is there a alternative to Plugin-container (or a way to disable It)?

== Issue
==
I have another kind of problem with Firefox
== Description
==
Is there a alternative to Plugin-container? It just showed up In my system processes when I updated to Firefox 3.6.6. I've never had problems with plugins crashing but ever since plugin-container.exe crashes have happened more frequently and plugins like Adobe Flash are now taking a lot longer to load. I have an older computer and I noticed plugin-container Is a different process and takes up a large amount of memory, didn't have that problem before. Is there a way to disable It? Even though Its suppose to resolve problems, I've never had any before and now that I have It I'm having problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
== This happened
==
Not sure how often
== I upgraded to Firefox 3.6.6 and for the first time had plugin-container.exe on my computer.
==
== Troubleshooting information
==
Application Basics
Name
Firefox
Version
3.6.6
Profile Directory
Open Containing Folder
Installed Plugins
about:plugins
Build Configuration
about:buildconfig
Extensions
Name
Version
Enabled
ID
Adblock Plus
1.1.3
true
Classic Compact Options
1.2.1
true
[email protected]
DownloadHelper
4.7.2
true
FoxTab
1.3
true
Java Console
6.0.07
false
Java Console
6.0.14
false
Java Console
6.0.15
false
Java Console
6.0.17
false
Java Quick Starter
1.0
false
[email protected]
Personas
1.5.2
true
[email protected]
Remove New Tab Button
1.0
true
[email protected]
WOT
20091028
true
Java Console
6.0.20
false
Adobe DLM (powered by getPlus(R))
1.6.2.63
true
Modified Preferences
Name
Value
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0
browser.history_expire_days.mirror
180
browser.places.importDefaults
false
browser.places.migratePostDataAnnotations
false
browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion
2
browser.places.updateRecentTagsUri
false
browser.startup.homepage
http://www.google.com
browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone
rv:1.9.2.6
browser.tabs.autoHide
true
dom.max_script_run_time
0
extensions.lastAppVersion
3.6.6
keyword.URL
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
network.cookie.prefsMigrated
true
network.protocol-handler.warn-external.dnupdate
false
places.last_vacuum
1273704069
print.print_printer
Dell Photo AIO Printer 924
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print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_bgimages
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print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_downloadfonts
false
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_edge_bottom
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0.5
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print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_unwriteable_margin_right
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print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_unwriteable_margin_top
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privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs
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privacy.sanitize.timeSpan
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security.warn_viewing_mixed
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== Firefox version
==
3.6.6
== Operating system
==
Windows XP
== User Agent
==
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6
== Plugins installed
==
*-Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45
*getplusplusadobe16263
*The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
*Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.5
*4.0.50524.0
*Google Updater pluginhttp://pack.google.com/

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

Multiple instances of "plugin container" running

I have consistently had up to five instances of plugin container running in the background...
* Windows Vista 32 bit build Ver 6.0 SP 2
* Firefox 4.0x
So far nothing can be attributed to web browsing behavior.
Thanks

There is a known issue where multiple instances of plugin container open if history or cookies are cleared. Are you, or some utility clearing firefox cookies or history, that could be the reason. This problem continues even if plugins are disabled in Firefox.
*Are you opening multiple instances of Flash Player ?
* Is the problem reproducible ? for instance does it always crash the plugin or cause it to hang if you use a particular site ?
If you get the FlashPlayer plugin crashing use the option to submit the crash reports, it is then possible to follow them up. It is possible to stop the plugincontainer opening, but that could result in a firefox crash. Of course the firefox crash can also send crash reports out, and that could be useful.
* see [[plugin crash reports]]
* [[what is plugin-container]]
* [[firefox crashes]]
There are some problems with FlashPlayer currently under investigation, and there may be other threads in the forum about problems. (e.g. Bug 561019 - Plugin waveOutOpen hangs )
Sometimes using Firefox 3.6 is a workaround that helps with FlashPlayer problems, if you wish to experiment with that consider installing firefox Portable and using Firefox 3.6.23 (or soon 3.6.24) for tests with flash player, whilst keeping firefox 7 for day to day browsing.
* [[http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/localization#legacy36]]

Plugin-container eat too much Ram ?

plugin container eat too much ram.some times too much than firefox.exe. and plugin container sometimes crashes.?
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== upgrade to 3.6.4

over 200MB more then firefox...

Firefox freezes on certain flash apps, can only be solved by ending plugin-container.exe

Since I've updated to flash 11 and Firefox 9.0.1 my browser is freezing contantly. I found out it can only be helped by ending the Plugin-Container.exe process in the task manager. After I end this process my browser works fine again, but all my flash applications crash.

Perform the suggestions mentioned in the following articles:
* [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Template:clearCookiesCache/ Clear Cookies & Cache]
* [[How to clear the cache#w_clear-the-cache|Clear the Network Cache]]
* [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]
Check and tell if its working.
-> Update All your Firefox Plugins
* https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
* '''When Downloading Plugins Update setup files, Remove Checkmark from Downloading other Optional Softwares with your Plugins (e.g. Toolbars, McAfee, Google Chrome, etc.)'''
* Restart Firefox

[Serious BUG] Youtube crashes to death; fresh Windows 7 install; firefox and plugins updated; plugin-container.exe disabled; noway

This happens to me and to two friends of mine. So it's hardly a coincidence.
I have done a fresh Windows 7 install (for other reasons) so I thought this problem (which I had since about version 8.0) would disappear. I was wrong.
Firefox and plugins are updated:
Firefox 13.0
Shockwave Flash 11.3 r300
GPU video drivers are also updated.
I came across the "plugin-container.exe solution" but it didn't solve the problem.
How to reproduce the bug.
Visit Youtube and click on some video. Minimize Firefox. Wait some seconds. Next time you restore the window Firefox crashes, you have to kill plugin-container.exe from the task manager OR you have to restart the entire browser in case you've disabled the plugin container.
The same bug should occur when having various tabs open and one of them is Youtube with a video playing. But also when Firefox has no focus and you have other windows on top of it (and a Flash video running or even paused).
Since this does happen:
-with a fresh install;
-with everything updated;
-even disabling the plugin controller;
it seems very very strange to me that this problem is STILL present since version 8.0 (or even before) and that there is so few reports of this bug around the internet.
I'm not complaining here, I'm just showing my perplexity about almost noone having this bug which is ruining my (and my friends') Firefox experience since the past years.
My purpose here is:
* to let you know about this problem;
* to know if other are experiencing it;
* hopefully to keep giving support to this thread and answer to your questions about this bug so to help this thing being fixed;

For problems that occurred with Flash 11.2 and earlier, you might want to consider disabling graphics hardware acceleration in both Flash and Firefox.
'''Flash'''
Right-click any video in Flash Player and choose Settings.
Clear the checkbox for "Enable hardware acceleration"
'''Firefox'''
Save all work (e.g., mail you are composing, online documents you're editing, etc.).
orange Firefox button ''or'' classic Tools menu > Options > Advanced
On the "General" mini-tab, uncheck the box for "Use hardware acceleration when available"
Restart Firefox.

It seems that my firefox hangs/freeze when I'm playing youtube vids, unable to surf at all. When i check task manager it seems to be a plugin container.exe problem? Can someone help me pls..

My firefox sometimes totally hangs/freezes when i try to replay a youtube video. I click the play button but the whole firefox juz hangs. When i try to end task it, i noticed a firefox "plugin container.exe" process.. So i figure it might be a plugin problem? I hope someone can help me with this..
Its getting very irritating and i love using firefox for web surfing.
Thanks in advance for ur help

YouTube videos use the Flash plugin. You can test your Flash plugin and see what version is installed by going to [http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ Adobe's Flash Player test page]. To update Flash to the latest version, see [[Managing the Flash plugin]].
Starting in Firefox 3.6.4, Flash is loaded in a separate plugin-container process. For the background, see the articles [[What is plugin-container]] and [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins Plugin-container and out-of-process plugins (MozillaZine KB)].
If Firefox hangs when playing Flash videos at YouTube, it could be a video driver issue, Try turning off hardware acceleration in your [http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/help01.html Flash Player display settings] (visit any page that uses Flash, such as [http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ Adobe's test page], then right-click the Flash animation, select Settings, and uncheck "Enable hardware acceleration" on the Display panel). ...More information here:
*[[Cannot view full screen Flash videos]]
*[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash#Performance_or_display_issues_with_certain_Flash_videos Performance or display issues with certain Flash videos (MozillaZine KB)]

Why does FireFox freeze and the only way to unfreeze it is to open the task manager and close the plugin-container.exe file??? It has been happening more and more often and it is getting VERY AGGRAVATING!!!!!

When Firefox does freeze (not responding appears in parentheses in the page tab) I am not able to access any of the webpages (the entire webpage is hidden behind a vaguely white transparent foreground) and more often than not any files I might be downloading are stopped before the entire file has been transferred - which means that I have to start those downloads from the beginning AGAIN. This has been happening for quite some time and I AM SICK AND TIRED OF IT HAPPENING!!
If it continues to happen for much longer I will swear off FireFox FOREVER!!!!! Either a program works or it does not work and lately Firefox has not worked worth a damn...........
The ONLY way to force Firefox to allow me to access it is for me to end the plugin-container.exe file process using Task Manager. Clearing there is a SERIOUS problem here that has not been resolved - why not???

The pluging container opens up unnecessary copies as the cookies/history are cleared, this is a known issue, it might be what you are seeing, and it is hoped to be fixed in some future release of firerox.
There are some hangs affecting some users, with symptoms being high cpu usage, occurring as bookmark changes or syncing is in progress, there is a work around for that.
Firefox hanging as you close it see:
*[[firefox hangs]]
* [[firefox is already running but is not responding]]

Why does plugin container crash ONLY on city of wonder on facebook

When trying to load City of Wonder on facebook, I get firefox not responding, then it closes, and checks for a solution.
Then it tells me that a plugin container stopped working. Ive tried everything, as it works fine on my daughter computer with an older version of firefox, I have installed an older version 3.5.10 and it stilll happened, then I installed the latest version 3.6.10.
I went to the help section and updated the adobe reader firefox told me was out of date, still it happens...how do I fix it once and for all??
I searched the web for answers, but none work, its really frustrating!

Andrew -- I'm not a programmer, but I do have a few comments as a reader . . .
On my MBP, OS 10.7.1, Safari 5.1:
The bottom "About Covu" is not live. Spaces is, but then I get the planet and it just sits there.
Blasts just sends the background up to Blasts. No more information is available.
Same machine, using Firefox:
Same results. No Difference.

Frustrating plugin container freeze/crash ONLY on YouTube

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