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
accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar
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
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_bgcolor
false
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_bgimages
false
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_command
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_downloadfonts
false
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_edge_bottom
0
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_edge_left
0
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_edge_right
0
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_edge_top
0
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_evenpages
true
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_footercenter
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_footerleft
&PT
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_footerright
&D
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_headercenter
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_headerleft
&T
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_headerright
&U
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_in_color
true
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_margin_bottom
0.5
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_margin_left
0.5
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_margin_right
0.5
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_margin_top
0.5
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_oddpages
true
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_orientation
0
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_pagedelay
500
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_paper_data
1
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_paper_height
11.00
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_paper_size_type
0
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_paper_size_unit
0
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_paper_width
8.50
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_reversed
false
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_scaling
1.00
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_shrink_to_fit
true
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_to_file
false
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_unwriteable_margin_bottom
0
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_unwriteable_margin_left
0
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_unwriteable_margin_right
0
print.printer_Dell_Photo_AIO_Printer_924.print_unwriteable_margin_top
0
privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs
true
privacy.sanitize.timeSpan
0
security.warn_viewing_mixed
false
== 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)
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