> 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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