plugin-container.exe caused Firefox to crash
 

plugin-container.exe is a file in Firefox. I am running FF23 on Win XP.
This was crashing FF regularly. I finally just renamed that file so it's
not .EXE and FF seems to work fine. The plugins still work too. So what
is the point of that troublesome file?

plugin-container.exe caused Firefox to crash
 

On 21/09/2018 21:20, wrote:
So what
is the point of that troublesome file?


You should know it because you are the only idiot using it.




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plugin-container.exe caused Firefox to crash
 

wrote:
plugin-container.exe is a file in Firefox. I am running FF23 on Win XP.
This was crashing FF regularly. I finally just renamed that file so it's
not .EXE and FF seems to work fine. The plugins still work too. So what
is the point of that troublesome file?



It's used for process isolation.

With plugin-container present, if Flash crashes, the
main browser stays running.

If Flash is run without a container around it,
when Flash crashes, the browser should blow up too.

There's also a possibility it helps with security,
but that's putting a lot of faith in stuff the
bad guys laugh at.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...ugin-container

Paul

plugin-container.exe caused Firefox to crash
 

On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 20:42:33 -0400, Paul wrote:

wrote:
plugin-container.exe is a file in Firefox. I am running FF23 on Win XP.
This was crashing FF regularly. I finally just renamed that file so it's
not .EXE and FF seems to work fine. The plugins still work too. So what
is the point of that troublesome file?



It's used for process isolation.

With plugin-container present, if Flash crashes, the
main browser stays running.

If Flash is run without a container around it,
when Flash crashes, the browser should blow up too.

There's also a possibility it helps with security,
but that's putting a lot of faith in stuff the
bad guys laugh at.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...ugin-container

Paul

That makes sense, but when plugin-container crashes, the main browser
crashes too, and that was happening far too often.