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Or do Adobe Acrobat and Mozilla Firefox not play nice together?

For example, if I start loading a PDF in a separate tab, and then try to flip to that tab before the PDF is done loading, usually it freezes up my instance of firefox, never to come back. I have to go to the task manager and kill it. And then after killing it, it leaves behind the "find" window from Acrobat, all frozen up and stuff. So I have to kill that too from the task manager.

WTFSoF?

Do I just have bad computer karma, or do other people also have problems with firefox and adobe not playing nice together?

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  • Stupid Ugly Fire-Fucking-Fox doesn't work with anything nicely.

    On the Mac I am forced to use Safari 90% of the time.
    • And I've never had a probllem with Firefox on the Mac. Ever. Safari on the other hand, sucks dogs' balls.

      IMHO.

      YMMV.

      IANAL.

      WTFWJD?
      • It doesn't play with contextual menus, it doesn't... oh fuck it It just DOESN'T
        • Maybe I'm still too new to the whole Mac thing, but I find that apart from some screwy Mac-isms, Firefox works in a reasonably sane manner. The only having one mouse button is a flaw of the Mac's, not Firefox's fault, but I'm slowly getting used to dumbing things down and lowering my expectations enough to use the Mac... ;^)

          • I've got a Mac here at work. The little bastard's got FOUR buttons and a 2-d scrolly sphere in the middle.

            I still propose we just strap our keyboard to the top of our mice then we can have 100+ button mice. Feel the POWER!

          • The only having one mouse button is a flaw of the Mac's, not Firefox's fault

            Huh? This [microsoft.com] is the mouse that I've been using with my mini, and the right button on it works as you'd expect. The wheel doesn't work in every app out-of-the-box, but this app [usboverdrive.com] fixes that.

            It'd be nice if Apple got a clue and added a second button to its own mice for the benefit of those who are buying the other Mac models. The mini doesn't come with a mouse or keyboard, though, so you can pick whichever mouse and keyboard you w

  • I use Opera you insensitive clod! :)

  • If I know I'm clicking on a PDF link, I save it to disk and then open it.
  • I've seen Adobe Reader fuck up IE and Firefox often. Especially on the school computers. It rarely fucks up on my machines.

    I can tell you why: it's the Auto-update feature in Adobe. It also runs when starting the plugin, but the dialog waiting for confirmation is hidden (if I recall correctly). So, if there is an update waiting for Adobe Reader, it locks. (The same happened a few versions before, if you didn't run Adobe Reader manually the first time and accepted their EULA.)

    Personally, I turn off Au

    • This why I install Acrobat 4 if I have the option.... Only once did I run into a .pdf that required something newer.
      • My dad works a lot more with PDFs than I do, and he insisted on Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 because he didn't stop running into problems. (He did show me the problems, I didn't take his word on it...) Since, I standardize software on all the machines under my responsibility, it is Acrobat Reader 7.0 everywhere. Except I rarely have had problems since I turned off the Auto-Update "feature".
  • Acrobat doesn't play nice with others. Any others... It sucks in IE too. (I mean, it makes IE suck more than usual and that is saying something!)

    As JtS pointed out, acrobat's auto update thingy can cause havok, because they forgot to actually display the dialog, so your machine can sometimes sit there acting all unresponsive, but its only because Acrobat has hidden a dialog and is waiting for you to discover it and click on the "go away, I hate you" button.

    Plus even when you quit Acrobat it still hangs arou
  • From the Mozilla.org site. No more PDF and FF issues. For the record I have experienced all of the same issues. After the extension... no issues.
  • But then again firefox downloads the pdf, and then opens it in a brand new window (i.e. a seperate acrobat window; gee what a thought) rather than trying to bastardize everything by pretending that acrobat is somehow part of my browser. Added bonus: problems with acrobat don't hose my browser.
  • PDFs work fine for me... Of course I'm on linux... and I use SeaMonkey, not FF... and I use Evince in a seperate window, not Acrobat in the browser... But other than that it is *exactly* the same! :-D

    /Sorry about that, I'm in a weird mood this morning
    //Slashies on slashdot!?
  • Ultimately I switched over to Opera, since that wasn't the only glitch / bug / problem I was running into in Firefox. (Speaking of which, be careful never to choose to open all the URLs in a bookmark folder unless none of the currently open tabs are important to you. If you had 15 tabs open and there were 3 URLs, you'd wind up with 3 open tabs ... and no sign of the 15 that were open before this.)

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