[Bug 244037] [NEW] could do with facility to reinitialise plugins in firefox

[Robert Persson]

Public bug reported:

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.

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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could do with facility to reinitialise plugins in firefox
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244037
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