On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:59:49AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:22, Merciadri Luca > <luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi, > > > > When opening PDFs documents in Firefox (e.g. by clicking on a PDF link > > in a webpage), it sometimes happens to my Firefox to stuck when > > loading the PDF. The PDF seems to be completely downloaded, but does > > not load in the acrobat plug-in. However, Firefox is still stable and > > responds correctly in other tabs. > > > > It looks like there's some issue with the Firefox-acrobat reader > > plugin. I noticed this on other computers running Linux and Firefox, > > even on different distros and acroread versions. > > > > I am running Firefox 10.0.1., but have got the same problem on Firefox > > 10.0. I am running acroread 9.0 but tried with other versions as well. > > > > Thanks for any info. > > My first two questions are: > 1) Do you really need Adobe Reader features or will Evince or Okular > or similar work for you? Poppler-based PDF readers are really very > good nowadays.
This is my recommendation. acroread is non-free. Install evince or xpdf, and tell ICEWEASEL to use that. Works great here. ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120217170157.ga26...@deathstar.hsd1.ct.comcast.net
