Plugin container for firefox and firefox eating up memory


  1. Posts : 7
    windows 7 Professional 32 bit
       #1

    Plugin container for firefox and firefox eating up memory


    I was having problems with too high physical memory usage(highest was 73%) causing my PC to respond slower even during winexplore. I started uninstalling unnecessary programs and disabling unnecessary processes, when I noticed that plugin-container.exe is taking up 23,xxx KB memory while firefox takes up 400,xxxKB. Is this normal? Is there any way I can tone Firefox down to further lessen my PC's physical memory usage? As of now, it's down to 36%.

    I usually run either Fraps, Skyrim, or Azureus Vuze while using Firefox. Current active plugins for Firefox are:
    Quicktime plugin
    Java Platform
    Java Deployment toolkit
    Shockwave Flash
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  2. Posts : 687
    Microsoft Windows 10 Professional / Windows 7 Professional
       #2

    Unless you're very limited in ram, its nothing to worry about. I've stressed FF to eat up to 4GB or ram and another 4 for the Plugin Container.
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  3. Posts : 7
    windows 7 Professional 32 bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Thanks a lot oldMX! I thought I would have to worry about it^^
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