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kernel32.dll
IsDebuggerPresent, UnhandledExceptionFilter, GetCurrentProcess, TerminateProcess, GetSystemTimeAsFileTime, GetCurrentProcessId, GetEnvironmentVariableW, SetDllDirectoryW, SetEnvironmentVariableW, ExpandEnvironmentStringsW, GetTickCount, QueryPerformanceCounter, DecodePointer, SetUnhandledExceptionFilter, EncodePointer, HeapSetInformation, InterlockedCompareExchange, Sleep, InterlockedExchange, GetCurrentThreadId, GetProcAddress, GetModuleHandleW
mozalloc.dll
moz_xmalloc, moz_free
mozcrt19.dll
__winitenv, _initterm, _initterm_e, _configthreadlocale, __setusermatherr, _adjust_fdiv, __p__commode, exit, _encode_pointer, __set_app_type, _unlock, __dllonexit, _lock, _onexit, _decode_pointer, _except_handler4_common, _invoke_watson, _controlfp_s, _crt_debugger_hook, _XcptFilter, _exit, _cexit, __wgetmainargs, _amsg_exit, wcslen, __p__fmode
msvcr100.dll
DllMain
msvcr80.dll
DllMain
xul.dll
XRE_InitChildProcess, XRE_StringToChildProcessType, NS_SetDllDirectory
plugin-container.exe
Firefox by Mozilla Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 24.0 |
| MD5: | 12fd4ef8f2cbbf98e0a5ced88258ddf3 |
| SHA1: | d2332dbe2ee069377e2973c907b7964ead7944e3 |
| SHA256: | 96a66362a20e09976c45e362df166552f3a4a694889827e4aef3ba8969e9005a |
What is plugin-container.exe?
Plugin Container for Firefox - Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards. Functions can be added through extensions, created by third-party developers. Firefox uses a sandbox security model, and limits scripts from accessing data from other web sites based on the same origin policy
About plugin-container.exe (from Mozilla Corporation)
“Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser. Firefox includes pop-up blocking, tab-browsing, integrated Google search, simplified privacy controls, a streamlined browser window that shows you”
Details
| File name: | plugin-container.exe |
| Publisher: | Mozilla Corporation |
| Product name: | Firefox |
| Description: | Plugin Container for Firefox |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\plugin-container.exe |
| File version: | 24.0 |
| Size: | 17.4 KB (17,816 bytes) |
| Build date: | 9/10/2013 9:15 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Mozilla Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Thawte |
| Effective date: | Monday, September 27, 2010 |
| Expiration date: | Sunday, October 30, 2011 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| Entropy: | 6.500324 |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ 10.0 |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
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(not a new window) and ca...”
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(not a new window) and ca...”
Firefox 24 includes support for the new scrollbar style, closing tabs to the right, an improved browser console for debugging, and improved SVG rendering. In addition 9 new security holes were pacthed.
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Behaviors
Windows firewall allowed programs
Exceptions allow programs to access to the Internet through an outbound connections
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugin-container.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugin-container.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugin-container.exe'
Scheduled tasks
- Entry path '\{94E20C9F-C61C-4D99-888B-EDE08F825D76}'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.02640205% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01613967% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01026238% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 136,029,946 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,132,183/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1,686/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 35.65 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 46.5 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 23.72 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 35.65 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 185.44 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 194.78 MB | |
| Working set: | 35.88 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 49.87 MB | |
| Page faults: | 406,808/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 2.47 MB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 20,279/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 2.18 MB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 19,169/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 54.53 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 2,509/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 12 | |
| Handles: | 303 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 16 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 24 | |
| GUI USER count: | 22 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 29 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Medium |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command lines: |
- "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\plugin-container.exe" --channel=4704.19e3dd00.728682134 "C:\windows\syswow64\macromed\flash\npswf32_11_8_800_94.dll" -greomni "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\omni.ja" -appomni "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\browser\omni.ja" -appdir "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\browser" e7cf176e110c211b 4704 "\\.\pipe\gecko-crash-server-pipe.4704" plugin
- "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\plugin-container.exe" --channel=4896.78c3e00.2098731178 "C:\Program Files\mcafee\siteadvisor\npmcffplg32.dll" -greomni "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\omni.ja" -appomni "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\browser\omni.ja" -appdir "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\browser" - 4896 "\\.\pipe\gecko-crash-server-pipe.4896" plugin
- "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\plugin-container.exe" --channel=4896.2819a00.1686382062 "C:\Windows\System32\macromed\flash\npswf32_11_9_900_117.dll" -greomni "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\omni.ja" -appomni "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\browser\omni.ja" -appdir "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\browser" - 4896 "\\.\pipe\gecko-crash-server-pipe.4896" plugin
- "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\plugin-container.exe" --channel=6136.1d32c900.752854190 "C:\windows\syswow64\macromed\flash\npswf32_11_9_900_117.dll" -greomni "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\omni.ja" -appomni "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\browser\omni.ja" -appdir "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\browser" e7cf176e110c211b 6136 "\\.\pipe\gecko-crash-server-pipe.6136" plugin
- "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\plugin-container.exe" --channel=3952.1143d800.539585315 "C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\mozilla\firefox\profiles\djmiq7co.default\extensions\{77e8143b-6759-416e-b521-82cfed75150b}\plugins\np-mswmp.dll" -greomni "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\omni.ja" -appomni "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\browser\omni.ja" -appdir "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\browser" e7cf176e110c211b 3952 "\\.\pipe\gecko-crash-server-pipe.3952" plugin
- "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\plugin-container.exe" --channel=3952.d973b00.1333449896 "C:\windows\syswow64\macromed\flash\npswf32_11_9_900_117.dll" -greomni "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\omni.ja" -appomni "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\browser\omni.ja" -appdir "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\browser" e7cf176e110c211b 3952 "\\.\pipe\gecko-crash-server-pipe.3952" plugin
- "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\plugin-container.exe" --channel=3952.4dea100.621731060 "C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\mozilla\firefox\profiles\djmiq7co.default\extensions\{77e8143b-6759-416e-b521-82cfed75150b}\plugins\npconduitfirefoxplugin.dll" -greomni "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\omni.ja" -appomni "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\browser\omni.ja" -appdir "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\browser" e7cf176e110c211b 3952 "\\.\pipe\gecko-crash-server-pipe.3952" pl
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| Owner: | User |
| Parent process: | firefox.exe (Firefox by Mozilla Corporation) |
Threads
Averages
| npswf32_11_8_800_168.dll (Shockwave Flash by Adobe Systems) |
| Total CPU: | 1.54914454% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.07656967% | |
| User CPU: | 1.47257488% | |
| Context switches: | 72/sec | |
| Memory: | 16.4 MB | |
| plugin-container.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.85256464% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.32291997% | |
| User CPU: | 0.52964467% | |
| CPU cycles: | 23,714,377/sec | |
| Context switches: | 210/sec | |
| Memory: | 24 KB | |
| agcore.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.58164000% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.08226653% | |
| User CPU: | 0.49937348% | |
| CPU cycles: | 12,734,827/sec | |
| Context switches: | 32/sec | |
| Memory: | 6.9 MB | |
| DSOUND.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.54191677% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.03177187% | |
| User CPU: | 0.51014490% | |
| CPU cycles: | 6,125,648/sec | |
| Context switches: | 29/sec | |
| Memory: | 456 KB | |
| npswf32_11_9_900_117.dll (Shockwave Flash by Adobe Systems) |
| Total CPU: | 0.45660887% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.23437671% | |
| User CPU: | 0.22223216% | |
| CPU cycles: | 14,508,861/sec | |
| Context switches: | 491/sec | |
| Memory: | 16.46 MB | |
| nphooks.dll (NielsenOnline by The Nielsen Company) |
| Total CPU: | 0.23614438% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.17079704% | |
| User CPU: | 0.06534734% | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,717,113/sec | |
| Context switches: | 36/sec | |
| Memory: | 500 KB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.16503124% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.11139586% | |
| User CPU: | 0.05363537% | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,159,154/sec | |
| Context switches: | 235/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.16 MB | |
| xul.dll (Firefox by Mozilla Foundation) |
| Total CPU: | 0.07986742% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.04465117% | |
| User CPU: | 0.03521625% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,485,239/sec | |
| Context switches: | 48/sec | |
| Memory: | 21.79 MB | |
| wdmaud.drv |
| Total CPU: | 0.04737048% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01291922% | |
| User CPU: | 0.03445126% | |
| Context switches: | 43/sec | |
| Memory: | 36 KB | |
| wow64win.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.02202110% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00549681% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01652428% | |
| CPU cycles: | 817,932/sec | |
| Context switches: | 38/sec | |
| Memory: | 360 KB | |
| mcbrwctl.dll (McAfee SiteAdvisor by McAfee) |
| Total CPU: | 0.01268992% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00153817% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01115175% | |
| CPU cycles: | 343,293/sec | |
| Context switches: | 4/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.1 MB | |
| wow64.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00825239% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00825239% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 94,113/sec | |
| Memory: | 252 KB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
25.50% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate |
21.50% |
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| Microsoft Windows XP |
20.50% |
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| Windows 8 |
9.00% |
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| Windows Vista Home Premium |
7.00% |
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| Windows 8 Pro |
4.00% |
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| Windows 8.1 |
3.50% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
3.50% |
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| Windows 7 Home Basic |
1.50% |
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| Windows 8.1 Pro |
1.00% |
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| Windows 8.1 N |
0.50% |
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| Windows 8.1 Enterprise |
0.50% |
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| Windows 8 Pro N |
0.50% |
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| Windows 8 Single Language |
0.50% |
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| Windows 7 Enterprise |
0.50% |
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| Windows 7 Starter |
0.50% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 41.50% of Firefox.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
29.66% |
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| Hewlett-Packard |
14.45% |
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| ASUS |
13.69% |
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| Acer |
11.03% |
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| Toshiba |
9.13% |
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| American Megatrends |
5.32% |
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| Lenovo |
3.04% |
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| Sony |
3.04% |
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| GIGABYTE |
2.28% |
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| Intel |
2.28% |
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| Sahara |
1.90% |
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| Gateway |
1.52% |
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| Samsung |
1.52% |
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| Medion |
0.76% |
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| Packard Bell |
0.38% |
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