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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? |
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plugin-container.exe caused Firefox to crash
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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. |
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