As further exposition I should add that it only affected my existing user account that I had upgraded from Hardy. If I started a guest session then there was no problem.
In order to try and fix it I had uninstalled flash and nspluginwrapper (on AMD64 here) which had no effect. -- firefox (intrepid): "your browser has been updated and needs to be restarted" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270303 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs