Wheezy: Iceweasel: Bank login fails with "Skype buttons for kopete" plugin disabled

[T Elcor <telcor@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

I'm experiencing a weird problem when I'm not able to log in to my bank account if I disable the "Skype buttons for kopete" plugin in iceweasel. Login attempts just fail with a cryptic "Unable to Process Request - Try Again Later or Contact Customer Support" message.

I struggled with this problem for a while and was able to identify it to the "pluginreg.dat" file in my profile and then to the enabled/disabled state of the "Skype buttons" plugin. If the plugin enabled then I can log in, if it's disabled then I can't.

I'm kind of puzzled and concerned why my bank transactions should have anything to do with the Skype buttons or Kopete.

Any ideas? Thanks


$ uname -a
Linux test 3.1.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 14 08:02:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux


$ aptitude show iceweasel
Package: iceweasel                       
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 8.0-3+b1
Priority: optional
Section: web
Maintainer: Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <pkg-mozilla-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 5,875 k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.10),
         libnspr4-0d (>= 1.8.0.10), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), fontconfig, procps, debianutils (>= 1.16),
         xulrunner-8.0 (>= 8.0-3+b1)
Suggests: ttf-lyx | latex-xft-fonts, xfonts-mathml, ttf-mathematica4.1, mozplugger, libgssapi-krb5-2 |
          libkrb53
Provides: gnome-www-browser, www-browser
Description: Web browser based on Firefox
 Iceweasel is Firefox, rebranded. It is a powerful, extensible web browser with support for modern web
 application technologies.


$ aptitude show kopete
Package: kopete                          
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 4:4.6.5-3
Priority: optional
Section: net
Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 18.6 M
Depends: kdebase-runtime, kdepim-runtime, libc6 (>= 2.4), libexpat1 (>= 1.95.8), libgadu3 (>= 1:1.8.0+r592),
         libgif4 (>= 4.1.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libidn11 (>= 1.13), libjasper1, libkabc4 (>= 4:4.6),
         libkcmutils4 (>= 4:4.6), libkde3support4 (>= 4:4.6), libkdecore5 (>= 4:4.6), libkdeui5 (>= 4:4.6),
         libkdnssd4 (>= 4:4.6), libkemoticons4 (>= 4:4.6), libkhtml5 (>= 4:4.6), libkio5 (>= 4:4.6),
         libkmime4 (>= 4:4.6), libknewstuff2-4 (>= 4:4.6), libknotifyconfig4 (>= 4:4.6), libkopete4 (>=
         4:4.6.1), libkparts4 (>= 4:4.6), libkpimidentities4 (>= 4:4.6), libmeanwhile1 (>= 1.0.2),
         libmediastreamer0 (>= 3.3.2), libmsn0.3 (>= 4.1~), libortp8 (>= 3.3.2), libotr2 (>= 3.2.0),
         libphonon4 (>= 4:4.2.0), libqca2 (>= 2.0.2), libqimageblitz4 (>= 1:0.0.4), libqt4-dbus (>= 4:4.5.3),
         libqt4-network (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-qt3support (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-sql (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-xml (>=
         4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta2), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.5.3), libsolid4 (>= 4:4.6), libssl1.0.0
         (>= 1.0.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), libv4l-0 (>= 0.5.0), libx11-6, libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libxslt1.1 (>=
         1.1.25), phonon, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Recommends: libqca2-plugin-ossl, libqt4-sql-sqlite
Suggests: kdeartwork-emoticons, khelpcenter4, texlive-latex-base
Description: instant messaging and chat application
 Kopete is an instant messaging and chat application with support for a wide variety of services, such as
 AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, MSN, and Jabber.  Advanced features and additional protocols are available as plugins. 
 
 This package is part of the KDE networking module.
Homepage: http://www.kde.org/