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nick

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Mar 16, 2007, 2:25:57 PM3/16/07
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Whenever I try to open/view a pdf file in Firefox it seems to lock me
out of all other tabs and subsequently the whole browser just to
"wait" for the download to finish. I hope they've logged this as a bug?

Frobozz

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Mar 16, 2007, 2:36:10 PM3/16/07
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nick said the following:

> Whenever I try to open/view a pdf file in Firefox it seems to lock me
> out of all other tabs and subsequently the whole browser

not verified.

either I misunderstood you ... or ... I can't duplicate the situation
that you tried.

For example, I googled for an innocuous type site with a pdf and found this:

http://tinyurl.com/yrv9wk about Weather ...

then I open two additional Tabs in my FF.
Then I switch to that link causing instant D/L of a weather student page
...

as that's started I instantly switch to one of the other tabs and head
for google news ... it works ...

thus, I can't reproduce problem.

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Frobozz
Macbook Pro 2.16 Core-Duo OS/X 10.4.9

Thunderbird version 1.5.0.10 (20070221)

Camino : Version 2007022813 (1.0.4)

Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X;
en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

Nir

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Mar 16, 2007, 4:36:55 PM3/16/07
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"http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/acroread.html#win-troubleshoot"

Aggro

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Mar 16, 2007, 5:03:21 PM3/16/07
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Frobozz wrote:
> nick said the following:
>> Whenever I try to open/view a pdf file in Firefox it seems to lock me
>> out of all other tabs and subsequently the whole browser
>
> not verified.
>
> either I misunderstood you ... or ... I can't duplicate the situation
> that you tried.

He probably means the situation when pdf is opened inside the browser
using the pdf-reader plugin. The plugin itself eats all cpu resources of
the browser which causes the situation.

Workaround is to setup Firefox to open pdfs in external program (the pdf
reader) instead of using the plugin. Instructions are found from here:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Adobe_Reader#Method_2_.28Firefox_only.29

Millwood

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Mar 18, 2007, 6:38:49 PM3/18/07
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In my experience, Acrobat Reader 8 plays much nicer than previous
releases. So it you haven't yet upgraded, you might give it a try.

Miles

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Mar 18, 2007, 7:05:34 PM3/18/07
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Interesting I had Reader 7.x and went to the update under help and it
updated to 7.0.8. Then went to, I believe the credits window or
somewhere under help and discovered there was a 7.0.9 and updated to
that version. It didn't notify of a version 8; however, I'll try
version 7.0.9 for awhile.
Miles

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