Fix Firefox lag or crash when browsing flash content

I always had issues with flash content lagging or freezing up. Even on websites like youtube, photobucket, etc

Googled and found that the culprit could be the Plugin-container of Firefox.


Here is the fix:

Open a tab in firefox, enter this in the address bar---> about:config

Click on I'll be careful...blah blah

Search for dom.ipc.plugins.enabled

Change the value to false. (Toggle)

Now create 4 new boolean entries with the given names and set them to false
(you can only do this one by one)

dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npctrl.dll
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npqtplugin.dll
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npswf32.dll
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.nptest.dll

I tested it on Firefox 7 and it works fine. Just wanted to share it with you guys

learn it from: http://www.technogadge.com/stop-plugin-container-in-firefox-4/

Thank you Ash for the fix. Next time FF crashes for me, I will try this fix. But till now, its the most stable one for me. No crashes.

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Originally Posted by Avinash

Thank you Ash for the fix. Next time FF crashes for me, I will try this fix. But till now, its the most stable one for me. No crashes.

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Well it never crashed for me either. Just froze up for 30 seconds or so. Been happening for long time.

this trick helped me fix it

never happened to me as well, but surely keep this in mind. Thanks for the informative post :thumb:

Thanks for this excellent post.
FF was consistently crashing when using flash and this fix seems to have solved the problem.

Excellent ash bro. :heh: Not using FF.