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TB Hammers Plugin-Container.exe

SurferJoe46

SurferJoe46

Feb 22, 2010
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The Bitterroot Mounts, Montana
#1
Every time I load or reload a page from TB, I get several instances of Plugin-Container.exe that fires up and that kills many other ongoing processes - like my streaming media which I keep running 24/7.

I also see the load-whirly-thing still running a few moments even after a page is fully loaded.

I see this in my taskmanager - there are just too many of the Plugin-Container.exe running on this site.

It even restarts on some pages long after the page is loaded - it starts up again, loading something that I cannot detect.

What's with all the overhead from the TB website?
 
#5
L-A said:
I'm pretty sure that's not coming from Talkbass. As a matter of fact, I'm absolutely certain this has to do with you running Firefox on Windows. And getting Flash ads.
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ABP is running so I never see any ads or pops or toast for the same reason. - and I bet this is a Silverlite or Flash problem.

I get the same problem in Chrome too - but it uses the IE and M$ legacy settings to get the TB pages up and running. Again, ABP is running there and it keeps the nasty Flash-junk away too.

I have two pages of TB loading at the mo, and I have six instances of Plugin-Containers.exe running and then they settle down as the pages get fully loaded.

Somehow I am not without Plugin-Containers.exe running at least one instance all the time I am on TB.

I do not see all this happening on other sites - however in reality, GC's site is slightly worse.

Yeah - FF 4.0 is up-n-running here.
 
#6
SurferJoe46 said:
ABP is running so I never see any ads or pops or toast for the same reason. - and I bet this is a Silverlite or Flash problem.

I get the same problem in Chrome too - but it uses the IE and M$ legacy settings to get the TB pages up and running. Again, ABP is running there and it keeps the nasty Flash-junk away too.
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Ad Blocker intervenes in the Javascript and CSS to hide the apps. They are still loaded, and if a plugin manager is to manage Flash or Silverlight, it still will.
 
#7
I don't get the "web browser causing issues" thing. For a while now I've seen people pimping Firefox and Chrome as if they offer some sort of advantage. I use IE8 and have no urge to move to Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera...

I think people switch browsers because of an urge to just tinker or some sort of weird distrust of Microsoft.

Oh well, whatever floats your boat I guess...
 
#9
I so thoroughly dislike IE and all it's permutations that I switched to FF when it's first few incarnations were still in beta versions.

This new problem may have other answers, some of which I am soliciting here in case anyone else has noticed it.

Frankly, (or Bob-ly or even Tim-ly) I keep TB running pretty much 24/7 too, so I can see responses and not have to wait for the bell to ring in Chrome to let me know I have a response. Such is the life of a retired person who is still snowed in and it's only 20ºF for many days of the week.

Not BLAMING TB, I wonder if this is just my system of a narrow pipe that I have to contend with through my ISP.

Still - it's new and just recently happening in the past few weeks or so.

I at first thought it might be my FAX line in/out to a modem on my puter - but I yanked that out the other day to no improvement to my streaming media. it still goes blank and I see WMP is trying to reload when the sound disappears.

Typing this reply, my stream has blanked out and back on about a dozen times and I have stepped down to 96Kbps for this stream and I still cannot hold it.
 
#13
Well - it comes down to an ipconfig problem and the fact that Firefox is trying to avert a crash by reloading a page that it suspects is in trouble and it swamps the CPU. :hmm:

Wow - nice move FF 4.0! :spit:

Now I have to go into my internal settings and---->
1) enter: about:config in the address bar
2) type in "dom.ipc"
3) disable the 2 values that say TRUE, changing them to FALSE
4) reset the value of the other two to ' 0 ' seconds from ' 45 ' seconds​

Still sticking to FF4 though - I hate IE and Uncle Bill
 

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