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What is firefox.exe?

Part of Firefox by Mozilla

What is it?

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
Description of firefox.exe from Mozilla
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 more of the page than any other browser and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most out of your time online.
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How does firefox.exe run?

Process - firefox.exe is an instance of a running program. This 64-bit program executes with the privileges as the currently logged in user account. firefox.exe is executed by the process explorer.exe (Windows Explorer by Microsoft).

How does firefox.exe start?

Shell open command - firefox.exe is typically associtated with identifier name of ftp with and identifier of "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -requestPending -osint -url "%1". A Shell Open Command allows for an association of a file extension and a program. This association allows an application to be run when the icon or a context menu item is clicked upon in the Windows Explorer window.
Scheduled task - firefox.exe is launched automatically by registering itself into the Windows Task Scheduler under the task name '\{808980A9-B89F-4D0D-9383-03E2BD7F475B}'. Task Scheduler provides the ability to schedule the launch of programs or scripts at pre-defined times or after specified time intervals or even with event-based triggers.

Community

What is the community is seeing?What is the community is doing?
About 0.2% of all Boost users have the firefox.exe process running.Of the 0.2% of firefox.exe users, 28.0% have disabled it.
How stable is Firefox?
Based on crash data discovered by Boost, stability is a measure of how sound this particular process and the average percent of times it crashes.
     firefox.exe0.03%
Typical program1.26%
How resource intensive is firefox.exe?
Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.
0.01857% CPU185742.2%
Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.
333.81 MB RAM1550.2%
Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.
5,210 /min231.2%
Average I/O read and write operations for all programs is 2,253 per minute.
329 GDI objects219.3%
Average number of GUI GDI and USER objects for all programs is 150.
638 context switches/sec638.0%
Average context switches for all programs is 100 per second.
Typical file (disk image) location:
C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\firefox.exe

Are there other versions of Firefox?

What modules are loaded?

A module is a dynamic link library (DLL) or an executable file that is loaded into the process. Below is a list of non-system modules that are loaded by Firefox.

What else is related?

Firefox Stability

firefox.exe crashes or has encountered a critical error 0.8900% of the time.
1.  
Error: Stopped working (APPCRASH)
Occurred: over 6 months ago
2.  
Error: Stopped responding and was closed (AppHangXProcB1)
Details: A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.
Occurred: over 3 months ago
3.  
Error: Stopped responding and was closed (AppHangB1)
Details: A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.
Occurred: over 6 months ago

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600.131072)
Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600.196608)
Windows Vista (TM) Home Basic (6.0.6001.65536)
Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (6.0.6002.131072)
Windows 7 Professional (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Enterprise (6.1.7601.65536)
Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7601.65536)
Windows 7 Professional (6.1.7601.65536)
Windows 7 Starter (6.1.7601.65536)
Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7601.65536)

About Mozilla Corporation

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File details

File name: firefox.exe
Publisher: Mozilla Corporation (verified)
Name: Firefox
Description: Firefox
Version: 21.0
Size: 898.9 KB
Original file name: firefox.exe

Digital certificate

Certificate authority: Thawte
Effective date: 9/27/2010
Expiration date: 10/30/2011

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages
Total CPU: 0.0355706051%
Privileged CPU: 0.0169963874%
User CPU: 0.01857421769678%
Privileged CPU time: 127592768.77 ms
Privileged CPU time /min: 18,084 ms
CPU cycle count: 118,909,880
CPU cycle count /min: 523,210,093
Context switches /sec: 638
Memory utilization averages
Committed memory: 656.91 MB
Peak committed memory: 583.22 MB
Paged memory: 333.81 MB
Peak paged memory: 413.8 MB
Paged system memory: 458.9 KB
Non-paged system memory: 99.54 KB
Working set memory: 320.6 MB
Peak working set memory: 418.7 MB
Min working set memory: 149.37 MB
Private memory: 333.81 MB
Page faults: 10,168,349
Page faults /min: 129,095
Process I/O averages
Total read operations: 625,980
Read operations /min: 2,478
Total read transfer: 329.54 MB
Read transfer /min: 2.89 MB
Total write operations: 976,331
Write operations /min: 2,732
Total write transfer: 377.69 MB
Write transfer /min: 4.39 MB
Total other operations: 1,428,596
Other operations /min: 4,134
Total other transfer: 41.98 MB
Other Transfer /min: 232.89 KB
GUI Object Averages
GDI objects: 329
Peak GDI objects: 499
USER objects: 66
Peak USER objects: 89
Resources
Handle count average: 658
Thread count average: 47
Thread resource averages
wow64.dll
wdmaud.drv
ntdll.dll
winmm.dll
ntdll.dll
mswsock.dll
rasman.dll
d3d9.dll
mswsock.dll
ntdll.dll
mswsock.dll
mmdevapi.dll
winmm.dll

Process details

Runs as (owner): User
Integrety level: Medium
Windows platform: 64-bit
Parent Processes
Child Processes
Process Commands
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -osint -url "httpC://data.smartfren.com/popbrowser.php?a=510289800598586&b=a00000370362fd"

Shell open command details

Name: gopher
Command: C:\Program Files1\MOZILL~1\FIREFOX.EXE -requestPending -osint -url "%1"

Scheduled task details

CLSID: {30950B1D-F704-4AA9-B20C-E6C28D3808C2}
Command: \{30950B1D-F704-4AA9-B20C-E6C28D3808C2}

Image hashes

MD5: 95110a1c5a1d228ac1ddf6ab67d00beb
SHA-1: d89a9491c714a55d3811eeac8930c77b90fd59e9
SHA-256: 57a6c516e2a06c5e4e9134d8c230a385254a21fba8bde0e6e30ec086812f1f0b

PE image details

Subsystem: Windows GUI
Langauge*: Microsoft Visual C++ 10.0
File entropy: 5.40881
File packed: No
Import Table
kernel32.dll
mozalloc.dll
mozcrt19.dll
msvcr100.dll
nspr4.dll
plc4.dll
user32.dll
version.dll
xpcom.dll
xul.dll
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