On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:01:57 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: > 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.
+1 for Evince (never tried xpdf). I'm not having any bloated proprietary crapware Ad*be Acr*bat here, thank you very much. Nor any G**gle Chr*me. -- 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/jhmctf$fap$1...@dough.gmane.org
