PCbanter - View Single Post - plugin-container.exe caused Firefox to crash

**Paul[_32_]** · September 22nd 18, 01:42 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

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