A few weeks ago I noticed changes in browser's behaviors…
1) My IE 7.0.6000 no longer prompts for Click To Activate :)
2) My firefox 2.0.0.13 no longer required a reboot after installing Silverlight … If you had not noticed, using silverlight.js on IE allowed you to instantiate silverlight plugin right after installing , but on other browsers it required a re-start…
I pinged Piotr, our deployment PM, asking if he was seeing the same and he upped it sharing that he had a way to instantiate silverlight on ANY PLATFORM and ANY browser WITH OUT requiring A RE-START… [call me a geek, but I was happy].. Today, he posted the blog with the magic call: navigator.plugins.refresh () … Check it out yourself…
I hear the next version of Silverlight.js (when we next release an SDK) will include these changes; in the mean time you can take his advise and use navigator.plugins.refresh () to get around the re-boot issue and instantiate SL right after installing…
[caveat: this does not work if silverlight is being updated, and the plugin was loaded, but that scenario is not common since silverlight auto-updates itself] …
Thanks Piotr, and welcome to blogging..