Plugin-container.exe using 95% of conputer resourses (I end process manually when this happens or have to logoff/reboot)

Plugin-container.exe from firefox sometimes uses up to 95% of my computer resources and needs to be manually shut down by way of task manager or in the last resort of a manual log-off/hard reset (pushing the power button) At this rate NO browser will work on my pc under win7 ... i have gone through chrome (constantly crashed pc) IE (last resort, still installed useless for most websites)
and a couple others that just did not play nice. What gives?

There is a possibility that you have a malware problem, maybe you need to investigate that.
* see [[is my firefox problem a result of malware]]
If the problem is occurring as you clear cookies, or history (possibly on close-down of Firefox) then it may be caused by a known bug in Firefox. (Bug 633427 )

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Plugin-container.exe using alot of resources

Im using latest version of firefox but when i use flash player on websites like bc iplayer i notice my system is hanging and i found out it was plugin-container.exe using alot of resources.
I have latest flash player installed also
How can i stop this

There are some compatibility issues between the latest Flash player and some Firefox add-ons or settings. Could you see whether anything in this article helps: [[Flash 11.3 doesn't load video in Firefox]].
You might also consider disabling the new protected mode in Flash 11.3, since that feature is currently being debugged. See this support article from Adobe under the heading "Last Resort": [http://forums.adobe.com/message/4468493 Adobe Forums: How do I troubleshoot Flash Player's protected mode for Firefox?]

Plugin-container.exe using 40% of cpu

== Issue
==
Firefox is having problems with certain web sites
== Description
==
FYI, (thanks to all developers)
I rarely go to porn sites but the popunder-windows they generate caused the plugin-container.exe to use 40% of cpus (2 cpu). This is after I had closed all tabs and left my computer unattended. This popunder-window might have very-very-unusually slipped my attention due to my errand.
Thanks again
== URL of affected sites
==
""Removed by a moderator -FF4L''
== Troubleshooting information
==
Application Basics
Name
Firefox
Version
3.6.4
Profile Directory
Open Containing Folder
Installed Plugins
about:plugins
Build Configuration
about:buildconfig
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{097d3191-e6fa-4728-9826-b533d755359d}
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true
{0FED7D55-65D4-47b6-A6DE-9A4ADB55355F}
CoolPreviews
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true
DownloadHelper
4.7.4
true
Download Statusbar
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true
FabTabs
1.3.5
true
[email protected]
Firefox Showcase
0.9.5.5
true
{89506680-e3f4-484c-a2c0-ed711d481eda}
Flashblock
1.5.13
true
{3d7eb24f-2740-49df-8937-200b1cc08f8a}
FoxTab
1.3
true
History Submenus
2.10
true
{7102aba3-045c-4ec2-b921-46d87636d84b}
Image Zoom
0.4.4
true
{1A2D0EC4-75F5-4c91-89C4-3656F6E44B68}
Personal Menu
4.3.2
true
[email protected]
QuickRestart
1.1.6
true
Session Manager
0.6.7.4
true
{1280606b-2510-4fe0-97ef-9b5a22eafe30}
SearchPreview
4.5
true
Tab Progress Bar
0.6
true
[email protected]
Tab Scope
0.3.2
true
[email protected]
Toolbar Buttons
0.6.0.8
true
{03B08592-E5B4-45ff-A0BE-C1D975458688}
United States English Dictionary
4.0.0
true
[email protected]
WebMail Notifier
2.5
true
{37fa1426-b82d-11db-8314-0800200c9a66}
CacheViewer
0.6.3
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{71328583-3CA7-4809-B4BA-570A85818FBB}
CookieCuller
1.4
true
{99B98C2C-7274-45a3-A640-D9DF1A1C8460}
Dictionnaire français «Réforme 1990»
3.5
true
[email protected]
Extension List Dumper
1.14.8
true
[email protected]
Firebug
1.5.4
true
[email protected]
FlashGot
1.2.1.27
true
{19503e42-ca3c-4c27-b1e2-9cdb2170ee34}
Fast Dial
2.23b1
true
[email protected]
QuickJava
1.7.2
true
CLEO
4.3
true
[email protected]
OPIE
1.2.3
true
[email protected]
Java Console
6.0.20
true
Tab Mix Plus
0.3.8.4
true
Tree Style Tab
0.10.2010043001
true
[email protected]
Mozilla Archive Format
0.19.3
true
{7f57cf46-4467-4c2d-adfa-0cba7c507e54}
MR Tech Toolkit
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true
{9669CC8F-B388-42FE-86F4-CB5E7F5A8BDC}
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Value
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0
browser.history_expire_days.mirror
180
browser.history_expire_days_min
89
browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction
0
browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction.backup
2
browser.places.importBookmarksHTML
false
browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion
2
browser.startup.homepage
chrome://fastdial/content/fastdial.html
browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone
rv:1.9.2.4
browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab
false
browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent.backup
true
browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent.override
true
browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace.backup
true
browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace.override
true
browser.tabs.warnOnClose
false
dom.disable_window_move_resize
true
dom.event.contextmenu.enabled
false
dom.max_script_run_time
1800
extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6
true
extensions.lastAppVersion
3.6.4
general.useragent.extra.microsoftdotnet
( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)
javascript.options.showInConsole
true
javascript.options.strict
true
network.cookie.prefsMigrated
true
places.last_vacuum
1275329041
print.print_printer
HP Deskjet 3900 Series (Copy 1)
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print.printer_HP_Deskjet_3900_Series_(Copy_1).print_command
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0
print.printer_HP_Deskjet_3900_Series_(Copy_1).print_edge_left
0
print.printer_HP_Deskjet_3900_Series_(Copy_1).print_edge_right
0
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0
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print.printer_HP_Deskjet_3900_Series_(Copy_1).print_footercenter
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print.printer_HP_Deskjet_3900_Series_(Copy_1).print_footerright
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&T
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&U
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print.printer_HP_Deskjet_3900_Series_(Copy_1).print_margin_top
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privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs
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security.dialog_enable_delay
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security.warn_viewing_mixed
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== Firefox version
==
3.6.4
== Operating system
==
Windows Vista
== User Agent
==
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100611 Firefox/3.6.4 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)
== Plugins installed
==
*-Shockwave Flash 10.1 r53
*npRLCT4Player
*np-mswmp
*1.7.0069.3
*6.0.12.69
*RealPlayer(tm) LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In
*RealJukebox Netscape Plugin
*The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
*NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
*Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape "9.3.3"
*Default Plug-in
*Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.5
*iTunes Detector Plug-in
*GEPlugin
*Picasa plugin
*NPWLPG
*Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) plug-in for Mozilla browsers
*Version 1.0.5, copyright 1996-2010 The VideoLAN Teamhttp://www.videolan.org/
*Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_20 for Mozilla browsers

Only if i have 2 sites open i.e. http://www.youtube.com and http://www.mobileman.com (or any other site), i have trouble opening a third page i.e. http://www.google.com. Is it possible, that firefox is using a lot of CPU (i.e. plugin-container)??

Plugin-container.exe brought my PC to its knees. How to stop this?

I had absolutely no response from my computer for several minutes. After repeatedly trying to open the task manager, I finally succeeded. I noticed that plugin-container.exe was running at over 50%. I attempted to close all the running processes, but they were hung. I finally had to shut off my PC. One of your background processes should not be hijacking my computer for minutes! Please fix this!!!!!!
Also, your submit feedback is not working.

I found the way to stop using plugin-container.exe from somewhere and it works.
Steps to stop plugin-container.exe process:
* Open Firefox web browser.
* Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter key.
* A warning will appear. Ignore it and press the "I』ll be careful, I promise!" button.
* In the Filter field type dom.ipc. Six preferences will appear for the filter dom.ipc.
* Ignore first and last preferences. Toggle (double-click) each of the four remaining preferences to change the value from "true" to "false".
Explanation: The crash protection feature in Firefox 3.6 is enabled for certain plugins only. The four preferences that we modified here specifies four different out-of-process plugins. They are the the NPAPI test plugin, Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime (Windows) and Microsoft Silverlight (Windows). These plugins are specified in a separate dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.<filename> preference by default is set to true. We can disable them by changing their value to false. And thus plugin-container.exe will not run. By default the preference dom.ipc.plugins.enabled is already set to "false". So, no need to touch it. The dom.ipc.plugins.timeoutSecs is also not important here as other values are false.

Firefox 4.0b.11 plugin container.exe using 20.24% CPU .. Why

Environment:
Windows 7 64bit
4GB Ram / 750GB HDD
Firefox up and running with 9 tabs open, and firefox is minimized as I am working on something else. Any idea's why so much CPU for container.exe if its just sitting there.

See [[Firefox consumes a lot of CPU resources]].
Try also to update your graphic driver, if it is not up-to-date, as HW acceleration can also caused your problem.

Plugin container exe uses half of the cpu and that heats the motherboard, cores. some times temperature in motherboard is about 90 degree which is unacceptable. it is like that even only one page or tab is open. regards

computer features(hp pavilion dv5)
intel centrino2 inside
2.26 hz,
4gb of ram,

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

HT4623 the Icons on my iphone 4...suddenly get extreemly large, I don't know why. I can't use the phone when this happens, I have to shut off the phone, which is a problem, just finding the red arrow and making it go across the screen to shut down...help

does anyone know what is going on with my phone? I don't think I'm causing this, but you never know. my home page where the phone, camera, messages, etc...all the icons will get giant....maybe 3 will be on the screen instead of the normal 20.....I have to move the screen around to find what I need to open and then I cannot...so I turn off the phone, when the red arrow appears, and have to hold down one side of the screen to make the arrow move, If I try to slide it over with my finger..........I can't get it to the end.....eventually the phone will shut off and then I turn it on again and the icons are normal....but this happens several times a week and I would like it not to happen , what can I do?

Thank You, thank You ...so much......that feature made me crazy!
Ocean20 wrote:
This can be turned off in settings/accessibility/zoom. Then on the next screen turn off

Why does plugin-container.exe start 15 times (and then stop) during shutdown (taking MINUTES to shut down)?

FF takes forever to close (minutes). When using process explorer I see that as many as 15 instances of plugin-container.exe will be opened during the shut down process. I think this means that a plugin is crashing. I disabled all of the plugins and it still happened (but maybe not so many times). An obvious answer is to leave FF open but that seems kinda dumb. I haven't seemed to be able to find this addressed anywhere. I am using updated Xp, on a many year old machine. Please help.
Thanks, John Rooks
(also, my submit button doesn't work when I try to send this in via the feedback form. (happy, sad and idea page)

It is caused by Firefox asking plugins like Flash to remove their cookies and other locally stored data.
Flash Local storage settings Help:
* http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/help02.html

FF15 hangs whenever plugin-container.exe is loaded in memory

I need help. Since at least in v14 and now v15, FF hangs becoming unresponsive whenever plugin-container.exe is loaded in memory, as monitored with Process Explorer of SysInternals. This happens in FF with all plugins manually disabled and with no extensions, loaded in either "normal" or safe mode, even after having reset it to default state in about:support. (The unresponsiveness is not absolute, since every some 90 seconds there is a brief refresh of the screen as indicated by an acknowledging screen change due to a prior click or mouse motion. (In this quasi-frozen condition, FF slowly ramps up its memory usage while plugin-container keeps alternating between two smaller vales in Process Explorer.) After some 15-20+ minutes, plugin-container unloads itself and FF starts responding again. If I then visit a page that triggers the loading of plugin-container, the described problem develops once more. Blocking the loading of plugin-container (e.g.,renaming or moving it out or blocking it with the firewall) hangs FF. The solution for FF 3.6.6 for dom.ipc in about:config does not work in these versions.
Ironically, the Mozilla support page about "Firefox crashes when loading certain pages" (http://goo.gl/i02Xz) is a page that loads automatically plugin-container and hangs my machine, so I had to enter the forums by selecting a different problem.
This occurs in a Windows-7 machine with sufficient memory (1025 MB physical, 1025 MB virtual) and a lean configuration (monitored and enforced with Autoruns and Process Explorer), which runs very well other browsers such as Chrome, Opera o IE9. I have been using FF since its v2 and would hate to switch permanently to a different browser. Any informed advice on how to fix the problem (or disable the plugin- container in a working manner) would be much appreciated. TIA.

Solved by blocking the loading of Plugin Container . . .
Searching in the bugzilla.mozilla.org site for text or attachments on bugs related to dom.ipc.plugins...., I encountered several references to a Windows environment variable MOZ_DISABLE_OOP_PLUGINS, for example in the patch at http://goo.gl/jYJKL. I then added this variable to the Windows 7 system environment of my machine setting it to 1. It works : FF15 no longer loads plugin container (and therefore does not hang) when visiting web pages that before froze the browser.NB : As I discovered shortly thereafter in googling this environment variable, this method of blocking the loading of plugin container was already reported 3 weeks ago by big_v in the Mozilla support forum, http://goo.gl/v7prA. Chapeau.

Plugin-container.exe. I realise this has been raised before but there never seems to have been any firm reply from Firefox as to how to rectify the problem, as I have just had 94% use of my CPU by this and my use is so slow it is impossible. Emjayel

plugin-container.exe is a disaster and looking at previous forums it has been so for at least a year without any resolution. As I said before at one stage this was using 94% of my CPU and my system was reduced to a snails pace.
Surely Firefox should give some useful alternative.
Emjayel

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

Plugin-container.exe is using 90-100% CPU - even while running Firefox in safe-mode. Can I fix this?

I am using fire fox 5.0 (after using 3.6 for what seems like forever) and the plugin-container.exe has been sucking up my CPU power like a vampire. It had been doing that in 3.6 but not as much. I figured if I upgraded the problem would go away, but no, it has not. After reading some other similar posts, I ran Firefox in safe mode with no plugins running and sure enough after browsing for a bit it started running slower and used 90-100% of my CPU. Is there any way to fix this issue? Or am I doomed? Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide.

That's supposed to show you the problem isn't Firefox, don't know how successful that actually is. You can delete it so that it starts up again. Susggest restarting Firefox when you see it has used about an hour of CPU time as the next hour of CPU time will take shorter to get there and you will be locked out.
Also see this -- the solution on all the items seem to fix a lot of problems with the places.sqlite database.
:'''freezing at regular intervals''': http://blog.bonardo.net/2011/09/30/is-your-firefor-freezing-at-regular-intervals

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.
Not sure if this a firefox or ebay issue.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/What%20is%20plugin-container?s=PLUGIN-CONTAINER.EXE&as=s

When use "Clear history" firefox 4 create to much processus plugin-container.exe process

Hi,
When i clear History , Cookie, etc.... i see in the process manager any more process for plugin-container.exe
See screenshot : http://i52.tinypic.com/spvtq1.png

Twice recently my main XP system has begun to run extremely slowly and has taken a very long time to shut down. Investigating yesterday, I found that plugin-container.exe was hogging memory, using 250Mb. Available memory went don as low as 6 Mb. As I closed programs it grabbed more, eventually peaking at 400Mb. There were several tabs open, so I closed them one by one, and it was clear that one web site had triggered this problem. I suspect that there had also been memory leakage, with an area of memory no longer available. Eventually the system did close down, but it took 20 minutes. Firefox 4.0.1 is installed.
Same problem occurred with a laptop on which 4.0.1 has just been installed.

May i know what is plugin-container.exe and why it need internet access , noticed that it started only when i visit any website has Flash containt ? is it adobe flash player plugin ? is it safe to use ?

May i know what is Plugin-container,exe and why it need internet access ? noticed that it starts only when visit any website has flash containt on webpage . is this adobe flash player plugin ? is it safe to use ?

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins

Plugin-container.exe takes over and uses 100% of my CPU locking me out and leaving my PC non-functioning. Is this a bug, or a memory leak, in the Firefox software? Can anything be done to fix this problem?

In looking at Windows Task Manager I found that plugin-container.exe was taking over 100% of my CPU and my system was frozen. Is this a memory leak or other bug?

Thank you! I have been having problems with Adobe Flash since downloading the new 11.1 version. I will download it again and reinstall it, hopefully that will correct the problem.

Plugin-container.exe using 95% of conputer resourses (I end process manually when this happens or have to logoff/reboot)

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