What is plugin-containe and why is it bogging down my computer?

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What is this (from the command “top”)?


  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND  

2522 MyUser  20   0  298m 125m  25m S 18.9  9.0 106:07.76 plugin-containe

I assume it’s really “plugin-container” but what is it? I’ve used firefox with flash running for years and never had this issue before. What is this? My computer’s running really slow right now.

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According to Mozilla:

In Firefox 3.6.4 and above, some plugins are loaded separately from Firefox in plugin-container, allowing the main Firefox process to stay open if a plugin crashes.

I think you can turn it off in about:config. Search for dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libflashplayer.so and dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libnptest.so and set its value to false. Hope that would solve it.

Good luck.