You should disable Java and only enable it if you need it for a specific website. Java is also often responsible for high CPU usage and is causing more problems than people can handle. Learn how to disable Java in Firefox 3. For eg:- this site: cantonbecker. Did you recently download the Internet Explorer 9 beta? If so, you might want to know how to uninstall the Run Firefox in Safe Mode If you want to find out if a plugin is causing the problem, you can run Firefox in Safe mode, which will disable all extensions, plugins, themes and anything else.
From the start run cmd or from someplace else? I did reset firefox which made the problem worse — in that I had to kill the plugin-container process times for each new open tab. Even after changing all plugins to never activate. Then when I opened up a new tab again it only took one kill process. Hence — I think that may lead to the solution in some way. Meaning — opening up a new tab spawned the first occurrence of plugin-container but the environment variable suppressed any others from loading unless I go and delete additional boxes and then it cues up a one time plugin-container for each event.
Am I making sense? So, perhaps a variable could shut off that 9 panel bookmark page all together — any ideas? I can actually duplicate your problem to some extend so this is not something that affects only you by the looks of it minus the crashing and the ram usage.
Could it be that you have a website in those 9 boxes that triggers it a bit different? Since by the looks of it Firefox attempts to run those websites in order to create a screenshot of it.
If I pin any URL including this one the plugin-container process starts immediately. So it seems to have something to do with that specific feature. Quite good observation, thanks for bringing it up. I will take a look at it to see if there a way to make that tab stop spawning the process and I will report back here when I have more details. Lame workaround for sure but at the moment effective. Now to further delve into this.
Probably deserves more investigation if this issue reoccurs. For the moment some bliss. Trying to narrow it down to if it is a website issue or a Firefox issue.
In your case I would say it is probably a mixture of both. If it is indeed a corruption issue then a new profile for Firefox or a full reset would be the way to go to identify that.
As for the websites you had pinned before, do they have any sensitive information in them? If not, can you give me all 9 links, in the same order you had them one never knows! If you are uncomfortable posting them here feel free to use the contact us form.
That would be an easy way to identify if it is a website triggering the issue or if it something to do with Firefox only. Wrote a much longer reply but when I submitted it this site was down for maintenance or something. BTW nothing sensitive about the panels I use. Your basic home pages of ebay, amazon, local library, abe books, and some sports sites. The reason you can only recreate the issue once is that once you drop a link into one of the panels plugin-container spawns and thereby loads the webpage and creates the thumbnail and stores in a list for the next time you open a tab.
Try visiting a bunch of random pages after doing some searches … and then start deleting the panels so that the most recent history starts populating the panels. That make sense? Also, sorry about the maintenance, I had to update a few things, although you might be a bit unlucky as it usually takes just a few seconds :.
I just kept it there in case someone else was using an older version. In answer to your other suggestion: Yes, I set the system variable initially for user but also went back and set it for system. Grabbing at straws here.
Second method did NOT work for me. I get the plugin-container only when I open a new tab and then it quickly grows in size and crashes when it runs out of RAM. Any ideas. Running latest version of Firefox As far as plugin-container. Have you followed all steps?
Usually the cause for these kind of issues are the plugins, but if you actually disabled all the plugins as you said have you tried safe-mode? I would recommend updating your flash player and also create a new profile for Firefox this will reset your settings in order to narrow down the issue a bit more.
Since I was running current version of Firefox I skipped method 1 and proceeded to method 2 above. I cut and pasted variable name so typo not likely grin. There was no change in plug-container loading on opening new tab. Tried in safe-mode and again plugin-container loads. Visited one of the sites that indicated which plugins were updated and as you suggested indeed the Flashplayer needed updating.
The result of that was that the number of plugin-containers that loaded was reduced from 5 to 1 meaning — I just have to end the process once in task manager. Progress I suppose but still a pain in the arss.
What next? Reset Firefox? Any other workaround? Would kinda like to know what is triggering it and why? Seems to be triggered by opening a new tab — does that help? The plugin-container process pretty much contains the code that is executed by the plugins.
So if it starts when you open a new tab is it an empty tab? Does plugin-container still crashes because of memory usage after you updated your flash player and your plugins by the way? Also, have you tried setting the system variable for both the current user and the system all users in case something is conflicting with it?
Follow up. Disabled all plugins. Restarted in SAFE mode. Open a new tab and plugin-container. Even with no plugins installed the plugin-container will start as soon as you run a video flash for example. Same goes for quicktime, real player etc. What troubles me is that your Firefox still spawns the plugin-container disregarding the setting which should stop it. That is extremely odd. On the second method step 4 there are two ways to set the variable, system wide and user wide, have you tried both of them?
As for the crashing, my guess would be codecs at this point. Have you installed any codec packs in your system by any chance? Though audio and video codecs would cause the plugin-container process to start when a video or audio is played in Firefox and not on a new tab. I just did this. This helped a lot. I was having trouble re-starting firefox quickly after closing it. It would take 8 seconds or so to relaunch when before it would load in a second or 2 at most.
This second fix you listed not only fixed this issue but also just makes the browser in general a little quicker. Thanks again! The only reason it will affect a website is if you have a plugin installed that is conflicting with the website and it happens to conflict when in a separate process plugin-container.
Disabled it the second way and working fine. Tried the trouble spot that blew it up this morning and all ok. Will keep advised. Thank you. Worst case scenario if it is an unstable plugin causing the crashes, your Firefox will crash instead this time. In that case you can easily reverse the steps and switch back to the plugin container within a few seconds.
My questions now are: Could there have been something "hanging-up" and causing the "plugin-container. I guess I'll log-off and re-start after sending this. Note the suggestions about using safe mode or disabling plugins are intended as troubleshooting steps. Certain combinations of addons and addon settings may sometimes cause issues with Firefox use. Firefox is highly customisable. That is a great but also means it may be difficult to get to the bottom of some problems.
I am assuming by the way that the plugincontainer instances you see are usually in relation to FlashPlayer. Here is the correct information to disable the plugin container as the above mentioned article does not disable the plugin container in the newer versions of Firefox. The proof is under task manager plugin container not being there:. Does anyone have an answer to my above question?
I closed-out Firefox and logged back on using my desk-top icon as usual. I visited about 2 dozen web sites without a hang-up, freeze, slow-down or crash. First time in months. Web surfing speed is faster. I have gotten warnings on some sites to enable Flash Player to read all of the content. Most I ignored but with some more trusted sites I temporarily enabled scripts thru NoScript without any more problems. Hope that helps :. Search Support Search. Home Support Forums Firefox How to shut-off or disable Learn More.
It has to go or I'm going. Chosen solution Hi RadRon, as the name implies, plugin-container. Hello, Try Firefox Safe Mode to see if the problem goes away.
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