[TriLUG] Firefox and Acrobat Reader plugin

[Andrew Perrin]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 crimsun at fungus.sh.nu wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:25:20AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > Has anyone else found that Firefox crashes when trying to read a PDF using
> > the Acrobat Reader plugin?  It used to work fine, but since the recent
> > upgrade it crashes reliably.  I'm using Firefox 1.0.0 if that matters,
> > under debian.
>
> I cannot reproduce said crashes when invoking acroread by clicking a pdf
> in mozilla-firefox. What versions are installed?
>
> % dpkg -l acroread mozilla-firefox|grep ^ii|awk -F' ' ' { print $3 }'
> 5.09-woody0.0
> 1.0-2ubuntu3


perrin:~# dpkg -l acroread mozilla-firefox|grep ^ii|awk -F' ' ' { print $3 }'
1.0-2

my acroread is manually installed: 5.0.8. I'll try the newer and see how
it goes.

Thanks,
ap



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