FireFox dies when closing PDFs

[Big D]

The title says it all!
When I'm looking at a PDF on a website, and I try to close that tab, the bloody thing locks up and stops responding. It closes eventually - it takes a couple of minutes though, even using Task Manager.
Any ideas about how to fix this, or why it's happening? Cheers.

[Heath]

This has happened to me occasionally. What usually fixed it for me was that - somewhere - there'd be a window asking if you're sure you want to close the PDF document or something, so you'll need to find that and select 'close' or 'yes' or whatever the option is.

[Big D]

That little option box is always the start of the nightmare... once I click 'ok' or 'exit' or whichever, it does its unhelpful, unresponsive thing.

[rubah]

you could try using a third party manager for PDFs. it didn't crash for me, but was annoyingly slow, so I went and got one. Foxit reader is pretty good, or if you want to try keeping it inside firefox, <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636">pdf download</a> might help a little bit (esp the view as html button)

[crono_logical]

Bug in older Adobe Acrobat Readers, upgrade or use an alternate PDF viewer, or don't view PDFs in Firefox by either right-click save, or by changing the behaviour in Tools > Options > Content > File Types :p

[Big D]

Bug in older Adobe Acrobat Readers, upgrade or use an alternate PDF viewer, or don't view PDFs in Firefox by either right-click save, or by changing the behaviour in Tools > Options > Content > File Types :pYeah, I suppose I can get it to save PDFs and open them outside Firefox... cheers, that should do it.

[Jessweeee♪]

Happens to me too ; ;

Guess I should update or sumthin.

[Nominus Experse]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636

This extension makes it so that you have a choice as to what to do with a PDF link.

You are given the choices:

Open PDF | Download it | View as HTML |


I would say that this extension is most definitely useful, especially when you are experiencing the issues you describe.

[rubah]

way to copy my link!

[Nominus Experse]

Lawl

This is why people should read threads all the way through...

I'm an idiot and should probably stop posting.

[rubah]

it's cool, I think I've done the same thing 8) d-man can just take it as proof that it's an awesome extension.

(however I dont' use it on osx because osx has PREVIEW which is like the most amazing built-in pdf reader ever)