could do with facility to reinitialise plugins in firefox
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Mozilla Firefox |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox
This is a feature request, and probably not one that you will consider exactly high priority, but here it is anyway because it would save me a lot of pain right now...
The Adobe Flash plugin fails A LOT, or at least it does so on my amd64 system. From the moment it does so, every new flash animation or movie shows in the browser as nothing more than a pale grey rectangle. The only way to get flash working again is to restart the browser. While I fully understand that this is a flash problem and not a firefox one (I get exactly the same problem using opera), the fact is that adobe aren't exactly busting a gut to solve this. Flash is essential to get access to some of the most popular and important web content, such as youtube, myspace and many feature of facebook. Without a half-viable flash player desktop ubuntu is crippled.
Therefore would it be possible to have a feature built into firefox (or an extension) that would allow us to reinitialise the flash plugin (unload and reload?) after it fails, without having to restart the browser?
Such a feature, of course, would also be useful in the hypothetical situation that another proprietary plugin were to misbehave in the same way.
Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Can you give me exactly what it is you want?
What exactly do you mean reinitialise?
The way i see it is that this would be the same as closing browser and re-opening it since flash becomes inactive when browser is closed and than loads back up with it is needed