Why is wmiprvse.exe begins with Firefox 32.0.1 under XP SP3?

Whenever I run Firefox, I see wmiprvse.exe load as a running process. I see this using Process Explorer from Sysinternals. This happened since I updated to the current version of Firefox (32.0.1). It also occurs whenever I start the latest version of Thunderbird (31.1.1). I have two questions:

1. is this a normal behavior?
2. If so, why is it necessary?

And just to clarify things, I researched for HOURS using 'my friend' Google. I also tried to get the answers to these questions in the various forums without success. My copy of wmiprvse.exe is NOT infected (I ran across Virustotal) and is located only where it is supposed to be on my hard drive.

Please help me by joining answers to the two questions I and do not forget that I am talking only about XP SP3.


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