pluginserver.ex

[Shachar Shemesh]

Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> In the latest update of my Mandriva 2008.1 box, I moved from Firefox 2.0.0.16 
> to 3.0.6. Everything seems OK, but I noticed that when I run Firefox, an 
> additional process starts - plugserver.ex. This process is a VERY heavy CPU 
> user and I don't know what it is or where it comes from (although I Googled 
> and didn't find anything). Killing the process doesn't seem to do any damage 
> (firefox still runs), but the next time I start Firefox, the pluginserver.ex 
> process is back.
>
> Has anyone else seen this and/or know what it's all about?
>
>   
I have a guess. Is your system 64 bits?

This may be a helper process that is meant to allow you to run 32 bit 
plugins (such as Adobe Flash). No idea why it takes so much CPU, or why 
it is at all running when no plugins are installed.

Shachar
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