Firefox lockup fix for Windows 7

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I decided to post a fix I had, that may help others who had this issue.

After installing Windows 7, Firefox 7.01 would hang whenever I visited a flash site, such as Youtube, even with latest Flash 11 also installed.

Was able to open a new tab by right clicking Firefox browser in the tray, & choosing New Tab.

After you are in a new tab:

- Go to the top where the Address Bar is & type: about:config & hit enter. Click "I'll be careful, I promise."

- Type dom.ipc.plugins.enabled in the search box, & double-click it to change it to false

- Restart Firefox

This fixed the flash lockup problem for me.

Hope it helps someone else!

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I've had that disabled for months since I disabled that damned Plugin Container.

There's also more info from Mozilla on this:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins

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Just another reason to hate flash. :lol: Though, sometimes, I am unsure if my problems stem from Flash, or from using Nightly.

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I tried that. It just dumps the memory load from the plug-in container(s) back to your open FF instead of splitting it up. So the same amount of ram is being used, regardless.

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I tried that. It just dumps the memory load from the plug-in container(s) back to your open FF instead of splitting it up. So the same amount of ram is being used, regardless.

I should have stated it more clearly.

I apologize if I was not clear enough in my statement earlier.

This tip does not conserve RAM, just help with Flash problems.