Adobe Reader Zombies

[Scott Talbert]

Hello,

David, thanks for resurrecting the project.  :-)

I am trying to investigate an issue with the Adobe Reader plugin.  It 
seems that the plugin will exit when it is no longer in use.  After this 
point, the browser instance will not be able to view PDFs anymore unless 
you go and kill off the nspluginwrapper instance.

A more concrete example (this is using Firefox 5 with Ubuntu Natty):
1) View a PDF in the browser.
2) Hit the back button.
3) Wait 30 seconds...acroread becomes a zombie.
4) Hit the forward button...you won't be able to view the PDF again.

At this point, if you kill -9 the nspluginwrapper instance and reload, you 
can view PDFs again.

Any ideas on how to investigate this further?

Thanks,
Scott