hello dev's
i hate version 4 from ff, because mozila make a big step back(now is also IE9 better).
i have much problems with this version, the biggest two are, the "plugin container" and the process in TaskManager from firefox not down after closing ff4.
for the first problem have i change the "config" in firefox but the problem with not closed proces is wrong.
can i whitout problems downgrade PA ff4 to PA ff3.6?
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3.6 also has the plugin container. It was introduced midway through the 3.6 release cycle. There are no supported versions of Firefox without it anymore.
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What's wrong with the plugin-container? Google's Chrome has the exact same feature, and no one seems to be complaining about it.
And how is Firefox 4 a step backward?
The plugin container was originally really buggy with Flash. It would crash on me multiple times daily, to the point that I was considering switching browsers. It was really that bad. With the current Firefox and the current Flash (you *are* running 10.3 right??) it seems to work fine again, though.
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I can honestly say I've never had problems with Flash and Firefox. Maybe one or two crashes on the 3.6.x line, but that was rare and it wasn't something a page reload couldn't fix. On 4.0, I haven't even seen the external plugin crash screen once yet.
For me, it was specific sites and the way they interacted with it. With Firefox 3.6 and (I think) Flash 10.1, Hulu would crash out on me about 1/3 of the time.
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plugin-container can be disabled by setting:
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to false
but imho OOPP is working fine.
Have You tested on clean profile (and latest Flash plugin of course)?
P.S.
Fx gives You some more control over exactly which plugins are run in container so You can try to disable problematic ones. More (long) info:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins