FireFox dies when closing PDFs
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.
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.
Not my words Carol, the words of Top Gear magazine.
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.
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)
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
Yeah, I suppose I can get it to save PDFs and open them outside Firefox... cheers, that should do it.Originally Posted by 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
Happens to me too ; ;
Guess I should update or sumthin.
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.
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way to copy my link!
Lawl
This is why people should read threads all the way through...
I'm an idiot and should probably stop posting.
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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)
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