Acrobat+IE instability

[Pandamonium]

I regularly have to pull up PDFs from web sources, and like that Acrobat has a plugin for IE. I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced instability in the Acrobat plugin. Basically, my CPU load goes to 99% for Acrobat.exe every now and then. Another error can be had if I open the acrobat application while a PDF is open in the browser and try to close the application- I cannot close Acrobat without crashing IE as well. Does anyone share these issues, or am I an outlier?

 

[WobbleWobble]

I have issues with Acrobat and both IE and Firefox on some machines and I'm not completely sure why.

I found a way to get around some instabilities is to open up Acrobat (the actual application) then surf. I have to do this sometimes in order for a certain machine to work.

 

[Pandamonium]

Heh. If this isn't isolated, I wish MS would just buy out Adobe's acrobat division and fix the damn thing. I never gotten Acrobat to work smoothly, and I've been a user since 4.0. Just my $.02.

 

[klah]

I always disable the Acrobat broswer plugins. I use Firefox and have it load pdfs in the external Acrobat Reader app since there here is little worse than accidentally clicking on a pdf and having it lock up your browser for a period of time.

 

[Jolt2]

I have had this same problem with Acrobat and Firefox. Locks up and 100% CPU load. I just thought that it had something to do with Acrobat loading in a Firefox tab. It seemed that it was better when opening Acrobat files in a new window. I guess that idea is out the "window" now knowing that others have the same problem with Acrobat and IE.