{"id":6385,"date":"2004-09-13T09:31:41","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T16:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/09\/13\/adobe-and-firefox.html"},"modified":"2004-09-13T09:31:41","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T16:31:41","slug":"adobe_and_firef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/13\/adobe_and_firef.html","title":{"rendered":"Adobe and Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The glitch between Adobe Reader 6.0 and Firefox is <a href=\"http:\/\/plugindoc.mozdev.org\/faqs\/firefox-windows.html\" target=\"_blank\">pretty well-known<\/a>.  Not only is Adobe Reader 6.0 a dog (on any platform), but in Firefox it can <a href=\"http:\/\/plugindoc.mozdev.org\/faqs\/acroread.html#win-issues\" target=\"_blank\">hang the browser when you try to exit the PDF file<\/a>.  Annoying.<\/p>\n<p>One of the standard solutions is to upgrade to Adobe Reader 6.0.1.  This seems to clear things up.<\/p>\n<p>Problem is, I don&#8217;t use Adobe Reader.  I have an actual copy of Adobe Acrobat 6.0 <em>Standard <\/em>(to write PDFs), and despite efforts to do the &#8220;upgrade my version&#8221; stuff in it, it didn&#8217;t want to advance beyond 6.0.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, and in case anyone else is facing that particular dilemma, doing the <em>Reader <\/em>upgrade to 6.0.1 seems to work. You end up with multiple icons, but so far both the Reader and Acrobat seem to working find, and windows\/tabs can be closed without hanging Firefox.  Shiny!<\/p>\n<p>I also downloaded a program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk\/getfile.php?id=arsu\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe Reader Speed-Up<\/a> (ARSU), which disables a whole slew of the Adobe plug-ins, which in turn speeds up the Reader&#8217;s load tremendously.  (The newest version makes the plug-ins optionally loadable by PDF, so you&#8217;re not really crippling the program.)  I recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The glitch between Adobe Reader 6.0 and Firefox is pretty well-known. 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