675772 - 16 instances of plugin container run when I gop to clear my caches

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 633427

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[rubrtoe]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
Build ID: 20110615151330

Steps to reproduce:

Iv'e been seeing a lot of "plugin containers" isntances running in my task manager. So I just kept the TM open and I went to "clear recent history" and was 16 instances of the "plugin container" pop up in my task manager.


Actual results:

I'm **** writing yet another bug report on this because I did so awhile back and several others chimed in and said "me too" on FF 4, and I still got asked a bunch of stupid useless goddamned questions over and over that seemed aimed at making me wrong, not FF, installed version 5, only to have the same problem but worse. But I'd like to reiterate that all of this started with an update to 4 and has continued in 5 , so it is not my computer, it is FF programming.


Expected results:

you stupid **** should have fixed this **** 2 versions ago.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

There will be one instance of plugin-container.exe for every plugin you have encountered on the web. 16 does seem high, on Windows XP you will need to install Process Explorer to see what program is contained in plugin-container.exe.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653