Re: seamonkey vs. PDFs (macintosh) - RESOLVED
A little googling reveals that: - this is a common problem - apparently the latest Adobe reader is simply incompatible with the latest SeaMonkey or Firefox There are two suggested work-arounds: - set SeaMonkey/Firefox to open in 32-bit mode - this DOESN'T work for me, SeaMonkey promptly and repeatedly crashes when trying to open a PDF - disable the Adobe NPAPI plug-in (via add-on manager) - SeaMonkey then automatically opens preview after loading a PDF - works fine Sigh... Miles Miles Fidelman wrote: I wonder if others are experiencing similar problems, or have ideas on how to resolve this: I'm running SM 2.8 on a Macintosh (OSX 10.6.8, Snow Leopard), and more precisely: Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Firefox/11.0 SeaMonkey/2.8 For a long time (multiple releases), PDFs have never presented inside SeaMonkey - despite installing Adobe's standard collection of plug-ins. Instead, SeaMonkey always treated PDFs by opening them in a helper application - in my case, set to Apple's Preview. Since the last Adobe updater, SeaMonkey seems to try to open PDFs inside a browser window, but they don't actually open - I just get a blank white page. It doesn't seem to matter how I set the preferences for helper applications - the default is listed as Adobe Reader, the other choices are Preview and Adobe NPAPI plug-in. No matter what the setting, SeaMonkey tries to open the file in a browser window, and fails - I can't seem to get it to revert to it's previous behavior of giving a choice to save or open in Preview. -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: seamonkey vs. PDFs (macintosh) - RESOLVED
I guess I never noticed this because I immediately went back to Reader 9.x due to not liking the interface changes in Reader 10...I've read that a lot of people don't - the menu options in particular. I guess enough people did that to get Adobe's attention - I recall recently doing an update for my 9.x installs. -- - Rufus Miles Fidelman wrote: A little googling reveals that: - this is a common problem - apparently the latest Adobe reader is simply incompatible with the latest SeaMonkey or Firefox There are two suggested work-arounds: - set SeaMonkey/Firefox to open in 32-bit mode - this DOESN'T work for me, SeaMonkey promptly and repeatedly crashes when trying to open a PDF - disable the Adobe NPAPI plug-in (via add-on manager) - SeaMonkey then automatically opens preview after loading a PDF - works fine Sigh... Miles Miles Fidelman wrote: I wonder if others are experiencing similar problems, or have ideas on how to resolve this: I'm running SM 2.8 on a Macintosh (OSX 10.6.8, Snow Leopard), and more precisely: Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Firefox/11.0 SeaMonkey/2.8 For a long time (multiple releases), PDFs have never presented inside SeaMonkey - despite installing Adobe's standard collection of plug-ins. Instead, SeaMonkey always treated PDFs by opening them in a helper application - in my case, set to Apple's Preview. Since the last Adobe updater, SeaMonkey seems to try to open PDFs inside a browser window, but they don't actually open - I just get a blank white page. It doesn't seem to matter how I set the preferences for helper applications - the default is listed as Adobe Reader, the other choices are Preview and Adobe NPAPI plug-in. No matter what the setting, SeaMonkey tries to open the file in a browser window, and fails - I can't seem to get it to revert to it's previous behavior of giving a choice to save or open in Preview. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
