Plugin-container.exe causes windows crash that causes Firefox to crash

Any help that can be given with this problem would be appreciated.
I'm running an older machine (Windows XP SP2). I was having a problem with Firefox 9.0 redirecting my search results to other sites. Scans with Norton and Malwarebytes showed no malware on the system. I upgraded afew months ago to Firefox 12.0 hoping that would fix the problem - thinking it was Malware and not bothering to check the support website here. That didn't fix the problem. So over the weekend I uninstalled Firefox 12.0 completely from the system - including my profile information. I did a clean install of Firefox 17.0. I think the redirect problem is fixed, but now I have a new problem - nearly every website I go to I get a windows error "Runtime Error. Virtual C++ Runtime library plugin-container.exe R6030 - CRT not initialized." This locks up Firefox and causes it to become unresponsive (so I can't get a Firefox crash report).

First try to update XP to Service Pack 3 and all other most recent updates. Then try again.

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I get very small windows popping up on the screen on top of anything else I'm doing regardless of what apps I'm running or not running. If I R-click on the icon in the task bar, it's identified as "plugin-container.exe"
The window doesn't say why it's there, but only displays a 3 digit number (for example the on on the screen now says 587) and allows only the usual X to close, or an 'OK' button to close. But a short time later it pops up again.
I'm running Windows 7 64bit MS Security Essentials and Firefox, though it will pop up even if I just booted and haven't started Firefox yet.
It's really (really really) annoying. How can I fix it or disable it or whatever it takes to make it STOP.
Perhaps if I had some idea what it was I could attack it that way, but I haven't a clue. BTW, I've cleaned the registry, and done full scan's for virus and turned up nada.
Thanks.
D.

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There will be no update to Waterfox 25.0 as a bug causes Adobe Flash to crash on 64-Bit Windows 7 systems. Bug here. Although Firefox 25.0.1 is now available and we could build it, there would be no point of releasing a new version of Waterfox for only two weeks.
I mostly only use Waterfox and had no problem in the past. I suspect a flash problem may be at the root of my problem however.
As stated, I've performed (full) virus scans with MS Security Essentials. Also with Housecall, and also with HiJackThis. No problems detected.
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Plugin-container.exe : deleted it, how to re-download it

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== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== Today 6/22/2010

Firefox 3.6.4 introduced this plugin-container.exe to make sure that plugins are better behaved. So if you're watching a video or playing a game and it crashes because of a faulty Flash plugin, only the plugin will crash and it wouldn't take down all of Firefox.

Plugin-container.exe占用cpu太高

plugin-container.exe在看在线视频的时候占用cpu太高，我已经降FLASH到10.3版本了，并且将dom.ipc.plugins.enabled和dom.ipc.plugins..java.enabled改成False仍然占用很高，只是没有以前那么高了，我想问问，在最新版本的火狐浏览器中如何关闭plugin-container.exe这个程序，简直太烦了这个程序！~~

Firefox 3.6.4 introduced this plugin-container.exe to make sure that plugins are better behaved. So if you're watching a video or playing a game and it crashes because of a faulty Flash plugin, only the plugin will crash and it wouldn't take down all of Firefox.

Firefox opening with 2 plugin-container.exe

recently updated my flash to the latest and noticed a bit of slow down (this is an older computer) checked out my process and were as when i used to open firefox i would only get 1 firefox process and 1 Plugin-container.exe i was now getting those,and Extra Plugin-container.exe and 2 flash process so i reverted to the last flash uodate and it got rid of the flash process and it was a bit faster but i still have 2 Plugin-container.exe every time i load firefox
one just sits there using around 2,500 k all the time and i can manually close it with it not messing a single thing up flash and everything else works just fine and it no re opening itself so anyone know how i can get rid of this Extra Plugin-container.exe so every time i open firefox its not just taking up space and slowing me down

hello every plugin is running in its different container in order to enhance stability and security of the browser. this is normal behaviour and not detriment to your computer's performance.
please refer to the following blog post, that explains why there are more porcesses running with the new adobe flash plugin: http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2012/06/inside-flash-player-protected-mode-for-firefox.html

When will you get rid of the resource hog, "Plugin-Container.exe"

Plugin-container-exe has a memory leak. When you go in and out of numerous web sites, it consumes more and more and more memory and turns my computer into a dog. Since the inclusion of the plugin-container, explorer is now a better browser.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== The last update that included plugin-container.

Are you serious that this is your "solution"? I did as you suggested -- changed the flags to "false" -- and now I restared Firefox with a mere 10 tabs open (no videos; just a few text pages, gmail, yahoo finance, barrons.com) and Firefox is consuming 1.1 gb of RAM. What's the reason behind this? It looks like whatever resources were being swallowed by plugin-container.exe are now being swallowed by Firefox itself, so that doesn't solve the problem.
Is Firefox a good idea taken too far? When it began, the Firefox project was a fast, nimble browser. Is it now too bloated and convoluted to be of any use? Is it a victim of its success?

Numerous instances of "plugin-container.exe" causes crash.

Viewing pages that use plugins such as Flash or the Adobe Reader plugin open new instances of "plugin-container.exe" in the processes. The problem is that each of these instances continues to run after the page using the plugin has been closed or navigated away from causing large drain on system memory. They can be shut down manually from Task Manager but this shouldn't happen in the first place. I have since downgraded from Beta 12 to Beta 11 where this does not happen.
See here: http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss298/mfarquhar1/Capture-1.png

Viewing pages that use plugins such as Flash or the Adobe Reader plugin open new instances of "plugin-container.exe" in the processes. The problem is that each of these instances continues to run after the page using the plugin has been closed or navigated away from causing large drain on system memory. They can be shut down manually from Task Manager but this shouldn't happen in the first place. I have since downgraded from Beta 12 to Beta 11 where this does not happen.
See here: http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss298/mfarquhar1/Capture-1.png

Ebay causes plugin-container.exe to use high cpu

I am using firefox 6.0.1 with Windows XP SP3 and have noticed that opening my ebay summary page causes plugin-container.exe to use between 60 and 80% of available CPU time. I haven't noticed this problem on other pages nor did I notice it before the recent firefox upgrade.
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http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/What%20is%20plugin-container?s=PLUGIN-CONTAINER.EXE&as=s

[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.
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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.

Plugin-container.exe is causing problems, are there any fixes?

Firefox frequently stops or runs very slowly and it appears to be related to "plugin-container.exe". This was not happening with earlier versions of Firefox and it is really causing frustration with this version.
If I stop "plugin-container.exe" normal service appears to be resumed, but the program soon starts up again.
Are there any fixes for this problem or will I have to revert to Internet Explorer?

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.

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I sometimes have up to four "plugin-containers" running simultaneously. What causes that AND what are the possible ramifications of that?

plugins like flash & java etc that are currently running on sites are outsourced into the plugin-container.exe-process that you've discovered for performance and stability reasons - you can have a look at your currently installed plugins in tools > addons > plugins & disable those you don't need.
in one of the upcoming releases firefox will ship with a feature that allows you to enable plugins on vistited sites on a per-demand basis, [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Opt-in_activation_for_plugins]
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How to solve hanging problem caused by the plugin-container.exe (instruction 0x0276609c)?

To whom it may concern,
I am not sure about the cause, however I have experienced hanging of the programme repeatedly. I have not been able to solve it otherwise than by ending the process via task manager (I am using Firefox 4.0.1 running on Win XP SP2). After doing so, a message appeared saying this:
"sw: plugin-container.exe application error
Instruction at the address 0x0276609c referred to the memory address 0x00000014. Impossible to execute memory operation: read. End the programme by clicking on the OK button."
I am sorry if my translation is not correct enough. I have tried to google the instruction number, but to no avail. Thus I have decided to ask you for help.
Thank you for your comprehension
JR

Try going to http://www.mozilla.org/plugincheck and see if your plugins are out of date.

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I have latest fire fox and silver light plugin
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* where to find plugin-container.exe. to install and try

Hi,
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Plugin container.exe causes severe slowness while trying to switch from sub to dub on Netflix.

When I go to netflix it works just fine. However if I try to switch from sub to dub it while just lock up. I have done while running task manager and the source of the slow down is plugincontainer.exe. It was working fine a couple weeks ago.

There are some alternative solutions to using the plugin-container.exe. You can disable it and then try and see how it works.
If you are interested in more about how to do this, click on my name on the left and then go to my blog as it will give you some possible solutions there that you will not dare find on these forums..
ref: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/981332
Best Regards

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)").<br><br>Opening two tabs displaying PDFs and closing one crashes the other one.<br><br>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.

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