What is plugin-container.exe ...

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... and why does it stop running every now and then? I can't see a
pattern to its failures.
 
.. and why does it stop running every now and then? I can't see a
pattern to its failures.
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There is a page here, on configuring plugin_container.
If you want to configure Firefox, to not isolate the plugins,
they can be run within the main browser process.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins

The most likely explanation is, the plugin_container thing isn't
working right. Perhaps if the plugins are run the "old way",
they'll still be running. It could be that just the plugin_container
makes them cranky.

If you make changes to about:config, don't forget to write them
down. You might want to revert them, in some future release
of Firefox.

Firefox checks to see if the plugin is responsive, with a 45 second
timeout. If something caused plugin_container to freeze for 45 seconds,
then Firefox would terminate it, and the plugin itself would appear
to have failed. One question would be, whether some heuristic virus
detection of any antimalware programs, "likes" the new feature.
Maybe something like Zonealarm is interfering ?

Paul
 
Looks like the best way to handle this is to install Chrome. Does
Chrome offer any surprises in XP?
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{shrug} Chrome runs each plugin in its own separate process. Firefox
used to run plugins within the Firefox process. Now they added the
"container" process to run all plugins in that separate process. They
will likely switch to the method Chrome uses, in a future version of
Firefox. If you disable the plugin-container (which appears buggy on
some systems, causing high CPU usage), plugins will run in the Firefox
process itself, as before. Hardly a reason to switch to Chrome. Chrome
is probably faster than Firefox, but so is Opera.

Issues with Chrome? You mean besides letting Google own your browser?
heh....here's a few of the many:
http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/static.py?page=known_issues.cs
 
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