plugin-container.exe

[Robert Slade <rmslade () shaw ca>]

> Earlier this morning, I was loading news stories onto my laptop 
> so that I could read them later.  (Since the client site is 
> sticky about visitors, and has me sit cooling my heels in their 
> reception area before I can get in.  Firing up Web pages to 
> read later tends to work unless the laptop decides not to 
> hibernate this time.)
>
> I noticed that the taskmgr process indicator was pegged at 
> green, so I took a look at processes, and something called 
> plugin-container.exe was taking up half the cycles.  I did 
> a search, and found that it is a Firefox process that loads 
> stuff like Adobe, Quicktime, and Silverlight in a process 
> separate from Firefox, so that, if that active content crashes, 
> it doesn't crash the browser (which seems like a darn good 
> idea).  So I killed the process.  So far everything 
> seems fine.  I'll have to see if there are any problems on 
> the pages, but I suspect that most of the active content was 
> just in ads.

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