813021 - Cannot terminate process 'plugin-container.exe' when PDF Viewer 0.6.39 causes firefox hang

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[t8av]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0
Build ID: 20121024073032

Steps to reproduce:

1. I installed PDF Viewer 0.6.39  ADD-ON from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pdfjs/

2. This plugin works fine for some documents, but for others it makes Firefox hang (Firefox not responding).

3. I tried to find and terminate process plugin-container.exe so I do not need to terminate firefox.

4. I used Windows process explorer (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653) to find the process and terminate it.


Actual results:

when firefox hang due to this add-on, I could not terminate the process 'plugin-container.exe', using 'Windows process explorer' (access denied).



Expected results:

'plugin-container.exe' should easily be terminated as in other cases that are not related to the above add-on.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

plugin-container.exe is for plugins (Java, Flash, etc ..) not for add-ons.

Comment 2

[t8av]

So, how can I stop the ADDON when firefox hangs, without the need to terminate firefox by killing its process?

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

The answer: You can't

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please file bugs for pdfs.js in case you encounter a pdf that hangs the browser.
This report is invalid because pdfs.js is an extension and no plugin.