Plugin container wont close

Running newest versions of FF and flash, win 98 with all updates. Avast anti virus free version.
When running intensive flash apps the plug in will hang and crash. Using Proc Explorer I see plugin-container.exe has maxed my ram and swap space and the computer's hard drive is just thrashing away. Close out firefox and 10-15 minutes later the HD finally stops thrashing and I can use my computer again.
My problem is the Plugin-container.exe doesn't close when I close FF. Proc Explorer shows a blank status, not running not halted not anything. Also, plugin-container doesn't release the ram nor swap space. It just sits in a wait state... I can kill the process of course. But I would rather the garbage cleaning routine in the process runs. Assuming that there is such a thing? Coders still do that right?
Anyway, my bug is the plugin-container.exe routine doesn't exit and doesn't release the mem or swap back to the machine. Is there a fix?

forget it, another Firefox process was stuck
not an issue
sorry
alb.m

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plugin-container should close when Firefox is closed otherwise cookies and active logins survive Firefox closing
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== plugin-container has shipped

forget it, another Firefox process was stuck
not an issue
sorry
alb.m

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.
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I am facing with the problem "plugin-container.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. Please suggest how to fix the problem.

I am using desktop computer with windows XP. Sometimes, I am facing with the problem "plugin-container.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close". After showing this event, the browser disappears automatically.

See if there are any Crash Reports ID's saved.
Type '''about:crashes''' in the Location Bar and hit Enter.
Then open each Crash Report and once the report is loaded completely, copy and paste the URL of each report into the the '''''Post as Reply''''' box in this thread.
IMO, seeing that you are using WinXP, you might be better off with the older Flash 10.3.183.90 version. Flash 11.0 and later have "improvements" that don't work on WinXP - only Vista and later. Adobe did continue to support and provide security updates for Flash 10.3 until a few months before WinXP went EOL back in April of this year.

Plugin-Container keeps playing video sound after I close the tab/window

Plugin-Container keeps playing video sound after I close the tab/window. I have to shut down the process to make the sound stop.

Try disabling hardware acceleration. Many visual bugs can be attributed to issues with graphics drivers.
(Firefox -> Options -> Advanced -> General -> [ ] Use hardware acceleration when available)

Plugin-container constantly opens and closes when i try to acces flash-based stuff.

When i try to see any media that requires plugin-container to boot, it boots up and then immidiately closes, and boots up again and so forth until it just gives up. It doesn't affect anything else in the browser other then inability to use any flash applications, such as youtube videos, other types of video-services and flash-based games. The plugin-container for Unity applications works fine and is not affected. I tried to reinstall Firefox and reset it, but it didn't work.

Reinstalling the flash player solved all of the problems.

When I close Firefox 4.0 RC2, I have four or more instances of "plugin-container.exe" spawn before Firefox (and all of the spawned processes) close. Is this normal/intended behavior?

These processes seem to be independent of the normal plugin-container process spawned for Flash.

Probably the easiest way is to download Firefox again from http://www.mozilla.com and re-install it.
If you want to disable plugin-container, see the section on "Disabling crash protection" at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins

When browser closes, many "plugin-container.exe" processes are started

When Firefox start, there's only one "plugin-container.exe" process. Instead at closing, many plugin-container.exe appear gradually taking up memory. So closing is quite slow. Is it normal?

I am using Firefox 4.0.1 (win32, en-US) on Windows XP Professional SP3 (i386, ENU). I am able to solve this problem by renaming the "XUL.mfl" and "startupCache.4.little" files (after closing Firefox first of course). Search for the files in your system (C) drive, making sure to search for hidden files and folders, then rename the files to different names. After renaming the files, try relaunching Firefox and using the "Clear Recent History" function (with "Cookies" selected) for a few times, and hopefully the problem should be solved.

Plugin container is broken

I was using the nightly with that e10s on and then my i started getting this :
Plugin container for firefox has crashed. with the multi process enabled, and having a toaster of a pc nightly became almost unusable. so i reverted back to normal mozilla and the thing happend again even tho i have all plugins disabled. so here is problem signature :
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: plugin-container.exe
Application Version: 32.0.1.5367
Application Timestamp: 541259dd
Fault Module Name: mozalloc.dll
Fault Module Version: 32.0.1.5367
Fault Module Timestamp: 541225d2
Exception Code: 80000003
Exception Offset: 0000141b
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.2
Locale ID: 5146
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
it happens very often when i want to close a tab that i opened by miss clicking, and when i press on x it wont close so i get that crash.

Well thank you for your answer. As much as i love nightly builds its just way to slow on my pc to be usable and the plugin container is crashin all the time. Maybe ill wait some time till things get sorted a bit to test the e10s again.

Firefox crashing---most likely related to the plugin container issue, but also unable to uninstall firefox, there is no prompt that opens when I try to.

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Moreover, now Firefox doesn't even seem to open now. I doubleclick on the icon, or try to launch the browser in any way, and it looks like it thinks about opening, but nothing ever occurs. I've watched my system processes, and firefox.exe appears for a moment, and then disappears, like its process has ended, but I've done nothing.
Additionally, I can't even seem to uninstall firefox---the uninstall setup doesn't open, and trying to do it from add/remove programs on windows xp doesn't seem to work either.
I also sometimes get an error that says windows can't find a file/path, related to a 'profile' but haven't had that for a day or so---since I can't even open firefox now.
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Hello sprytely, go for a clean re-install, this means you '''remove Firefox program files''' and then reinstall Firefox. Please follow these steps:
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#Download the latest Desktop version of Firefox from the next full installer https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ and save the setup file to your computer.
#After the download finishes, close all Firefox windows (click Exit from the Firefox or File menu).
#Delete the Firefox installation folder, which is located in one of these locations, by default:
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#**C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
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##Double-click the downloaded installation file and go through the steps of the installation wizard.
##Once the wizard is finished, choose to directly open Firefox after clicking the Finish button.
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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.
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Sometimes a plugin-container.exe instance starts hogging a ton of memory -- I would like to know which plugin is running inside that plugin-container without having to one-by-one disable the plugins. Which process called plugin-container.exe?

As described above, I have several instances of plugin-container.exe running, which is OK. It would make me feel safer to know which plugins are running inside each of these, since I would be better able to know whether there is malware running inside one of them, or which website might have made the process start hogging memory.
I am a power user, I usually have 80-100 tabs open, and of course it is hard to track the website or plugin down without having to waste a lot of time.
Could you provide in future releases this information?
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Thanks Efreak! 
Maybe I was not clear. I usually have 4-5 plugin-container.exe processes running. I know now that the large one that hogs is the Adobe Flash player, but, for example I don't know which plug-in initiated the other plugin-container.exe instances. 
One of them actually says "googletalkplugin.exe" if you dig deep, which is OK. At least I know why the plugin-container.exe was started. But there are other instances that are just there and there is no way to figure out which plug-in initiated it. 
This would of course also help figure out if it is really the Adobe Flash plug in that is hogging all the memory, OR even if within Firefox in the about: pages one could figure out which TABS are using which plug-ins.
Like that you could freely choose to terminate the process directly, or close the TAB. 
1) What I am looking for is a way to determine which plug-in is running under which instance of plugin-container.exe 
2) Additionally it would be great to have a summary of which TABS are using which plugins (e.g. in the about:plugins page or yet another about: page)
 
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plugin-container.exe (process) error
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saladin92 0 posts
my firefox info: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Sometimes when I put up multiple tabs that require plugins (like playing videos, flash files, etc.) an error message for plugin-container.exe pops up and all firefox windows/tabs closes. But I am still able to recover them, having to reload all contents.
How can I prevent this from happening? please reply, I hope a helpful person or mozilla staff sees this
January 5, 2011 3:34:15 AM PST #
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Kurosakiuzu 0 posts
I have the same problem. I've been having this problem since 3.6 update. Everytime I have multiple tabs my plugin container for firefox.exe sometimes crashes but i found out why. it sucks up so much of my memory and CPU. When my memory and CPU gets so high I have to use task manager to end process but when I do firefox runs much faster than before but still uses a little bit too much of my CPU and memory. But when I try to play videos, open new website (With ads and video clips) it happens again by using too much of my CPU and Memory. I have a Sony Vaio VGN-S460 with NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 seriess, 2GB RAM, 80GB, 1.73 Intel Centrino M and I have Windows XP Home. When I had XP Home.. the Plugin Container in firefox did the same stupid thing, then I upgraded to XP Pro and same thing again, now I am using Windows 7 Pro and only happens sometimes if i am using multiple tabs. I am so fed up with the plugin container.. Opera seems to be doing good with no crashes or slow process when i use multiple tabs but it is only slows once in a while though. But I am a loyal Firefox fan. I love Firefox but i can't stand this plugin.. its so annoying.. isn't there anyway to reduce it? If not then I guess I need to buy a new laptop and hope for the better.
January 5, 2011 11:16:17 PM PST #
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Anster 0 posts
Unfortunately I don't have a solution but I'm another one with this same problem so am posting this in the hope Mozilla notice and address this issue. I've got a relatively old laptop running XP pro but never had problems with older versions of firefox - which I much prefer to IE. Hopefully Mozilla are counjuring up a solution but I'm a bit disappointed they did not fully test 'container.exe' in the first place. Does anybody know if a solution is being worked on and if/when it will be released?
January 11, 2011 11:38:07 AM PST #
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corrieLyn 0 posts
-There are so many posts (including this one) bumming about this problem with the only advice being DISABLE IT! I have windows7 64 intel7 4GB ram W/ 4 more external. If I have this much power+memory and this still happens-WTF? Why is the container so crappy the only solution is to disable it? I archived the message and say-FIX THIS FIREFOX or tell us how!
January 20, 2011 1:32:31 PM PST #
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WatchmanJerry 0 posts
I've also noted a lot of bugs since 3.6. After the last Adobe Flash upgrade I've noticed a lot more problems, also. The frozen screen with the "not responding" thing is driving me nuts. This was a biggie after the upgrade to 3.6
February 17, 2011 11:34:41 AM PST #
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csfriel 0 posts
Can I just add my dissatisfaction with plug-in container.exe. Off now to see how to disable it. I've been using Firefox for almost seven years now, but it's starting to feel as if it's time to move on. Plug-in Container seems to make it much more resource-hungry and often I have to close it, close it again in Task Manager and then open it again to get any speed back.
February 21, 2011 11:55:25 PM PST #

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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

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