firefox randomly spawning mplayer

[Tim]

Tim:
>> Is it random, or happens after you've been browsing pages which make use
>> of the mplayer plugin?  e.g. Pages with embedded movie clips.

Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu:
> I start Firefox, mplayer immediately starts to spawn and die. 

Do you have a homepage set?  Does it include multi-media?

Do you have an mplayer plug-in, and is Firefox set to check for updates
to plug-ins at start up?  Though I'd suspect that's start something
else, not mplayer itself.

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