Latest up date with plugin container has made firefox lag and eating memory and cpu

plugin container using 5% cpu constantly, firefox using 150 - 300k ram, also plugin container not closing when firefox does causing shut down to fail have to use controll alt delete
== URL of affected sites ==
http://http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/

Flash games cause Firefox Plug-in container to hang. The problems started as soon as the plug-in container became a part of Firefox two updates ago.
Memory usage is up to 3 times what Firefox itself is using and when the hangs occur, the plug-in container is using in excess of 50% of the computer's memory. At this point, I need to switch to a different browser to play these games for longer than a few minutes at a time.

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    Application Name: plugin-container.exe
    Application Version: 30.0.0.5269
    Application Timestamp: 53914233
    Fault Module Name: webplayer_win.dll_unloaded
    Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
    Fault Module Timestamp: 536a098f
    Exception Code: c0000005
    Exception Offset: 056a5430
    OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
    Locale ID: 1033
    Additional Information 1: 0a9e
    Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
    Additional Information 3: 0a9e
    Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
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    HI Starlet sky,
    Its a pleasure to meet a fellow 3d gamer. Since the plugin that crashed was:
    webplayer_win.dll_unloaded
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    * Your plugins and extensions are not update: Shockwave Flash 11.7 r700 - needs to be 14
    * Update all your media extensions and plugins, this will help the performance. also look at hardware acceleration after updating your graphics card and extensions [[Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems]]
    Once this is done, please try to access the game a gain and report back! It could help other users, thank you!

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