Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:22:07 +0000 (UTC)
Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> 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
> >> <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote:
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> >> > 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).
Also check out mupdf - may not have as many features as Evince, but
it's a delight to use.
> I'm not having any bloated proprietary crapware Ad*be Acr*bat here, thank
> you very much. Nor any G**gle Chr*me.
Celejar
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