Bug#576621: Everything is OK after an iceweasel restart

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 12:50:10PM -0400, Dominique Brazziel wrote:
> Just to be sure I reinstalled flashplugin-nonfree
> and restarted iceweasel.  The browser had been up 
> since the upgrade of libnss3-1d.  The odd thing is,
> although I didn't notice any message saying I needed
> to restarted iceweasel in the logged in user (gnome)
> session.  But in the VNC session of a _different_ user,
> a popup message said an iceweasel restart was needed.
> 
> The objdump output contains references to NSS_3.12.6 in 
> both libraries.  Thanks for that diagnostic tool tip,
> filed for future reference/use.
> 
> While these are iceweasel quirks and it would
> make sense that one would have to restart the browser if
> a plugin was reinstalled/upgraded, there was no way to 
> know at the time of the libnss3-1d upgrade that one of the
> reverse depends of libnss3-1d (flashplugin-nonfree) would
> get trashed.  

Actually, you hit a corner case due to the name difference between the
libssl3 flashplugin is looking for and the one that is already loaded by
iceweasel (it loaded the one before the libnss3 upgrade).

Did that just trash your browser or did the flashplugin only fail to
load, leaving iceweasel working ?

Mike