On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:22:07 +0000 (UTC) Walter Hurry <walterhu...@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.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). 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 -- 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/20120218203548.e87791b7.cele...@gmail.com