Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-26 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:22:35 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > 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

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-18 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:22:07 + (UTC) Walter Hurry wrote: > 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 > >> wrote: > >> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >

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2012-02-18 Thread Lisi
On Friday 17 February 2012 21:23:27 Curt wrote: > On 2012-02-17, Bob Proulx wrote: > > [1] "The gates of Hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent and > >     easy is the way.  But to return, and view the cheerful skies, > >     In this the task and mighty labor lies."  -- Virgil, The Aeneid

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-17, Bob Proulx wrote: > > [1] "The gates of Hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent and > easy is the way. But to return, and view the cheerful skies, > In this the task and mighty labor lies." -- Virgil, The Aeneid=20 Matthew 5:38 and 39: ...resist not evil... --

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Curt wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > But since that is nonfree it isn't in the free Chromium. AFAIK only > > the nonfree Chrome has the builtin Flash and Adobe and other such > > components. AFAIK that is the difference between Chrome and Chromium. > > I was responding to an unqualified statement

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Walter Hurry
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 >> wrote: >> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > When opening PDFs documents in Firefo

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-17, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > But FF2-4, IE6-9, Moz1-SM2.0 on Linux and Windows > have all given me problems when running PDFs in the browser. Others my > be luckier. Well, the built-in, home-made Chrome PDF Viewer plugin is quite nice and smooth, and is even capable of filling in filla

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-17, Bob Proulx wrote: > > But since that is nonfree it isn't in the free Chromium. AFAIK only > the nonfree Chrome has the builtin Flash and Adobe and other such > components. AFAIK that is the difference between Chrome and Chromium. I was responding to an unqualified statement (I di

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:03, Curt wrote: > On 2012-02-17, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> >> launch the PDF reader as a separate process from the browser, or >> save the PDF and then open it. PDF-as-plugin is just plain flaky. > > I find it superior to invoking a separate process; opening a pdf in > ch

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Curt wrote: > Kelly Clowers wrote: > > 2) Why are you opening in the browser? I have never ever found that to > > work well, with any combo of OS, browser and PDF reader. I either > > I have found it to work very well in google-chrome, with the latter's > built-in pdf reader (should I say the latt

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-17, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > 2) Why are you opening in the browser? I have never ever found that to > work well, with any combo of OS, browser and PDF reader. I either I have found it to work very well in google-chrome, with the latter's built-in pdf reader (should I say the latter whe

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kelly Clowers writes: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:22, Merciadri Luca > 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

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:59:49AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:22, Merciadri Luca > 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 h

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:22, Merciadri Luca 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 complet

Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
-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, F