The file plugin-container.exe executes an application of the same name, Plugin Container. This is a service from Mozilla for the Firefox Web browser. The application serves as storage for plugins, otherwise known as add-ons, needed by the Web browser so users can execute a number of Web-based applications, i.e. Adobe Flash, Shockwave and Acrobat Reader; as well as Apple Quicktime and Microsoft Silverlight. The process gives users a separate storage system dedicated specifically for the mentioned plugins so that in the event that one of the plugins crashes, your Firefox Web browser will not be affected. While this is a most useful tool, some users have found the file as having bugs, where the browser hangs or freezes, or was very slow in loading pages. These could be attributed to users’ encounters with the process where it was found to utilize 291.99 MB of RAM space. These negative side effects considerably affected their browsing experience with Firefox. Consequently, some users have disabled the file to prevent these from happening again.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. plugin-container.exe. is used by Plugin Container, If you shut down plugin-container.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop plugin-container.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Plugin Container, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed plugin-container.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Plugin Container, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if plugin-container.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that plugin-container.exe, belongs to, in this case Plugin Container