Mozilla Firebird 0.7 and Acrobat Reader 6

[screw3d]

Does the reader take up like 30MB of RAM (in task manager) and refuses to kill the thread after exiting from viewing pdf files from Mozilla? Plus.. it kinda jams up Mozilla but will continue to work after a while.. wtf?

I uninstalled it... and put back Acrobat 5.. works like a charm now.

Where is the previous thread about how you can put some of the plug-ins into a plug_ins_disabled dir so that it'll load faster? I'm pretty sure that was for V6 but I think it should work for V5 also.

Thanks.

 

[duhh]

ive had the same prob, with mozilla even locking up my win2k box alltogether after a pdf is opened (and subsiquently closed)
yet acrobat is still what is eating the momory...


reported on bugzilla already...
workaround is:
"I've found a workaround that involves being sure that an Acrobat 6.0 session is open before trying to close a tab or Firebird window with a PDF loaded. If you do, the window or tab will close immediately. If not, it can take 20-30+ seconds before the window or tab will close"

 

[igowerf]

I don't think it actually locks up my system... it just takes an insanely long time to load and unload.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: igowerf
I don't think it actually locks up my system... it just takes an insanely long time to load and unload.

Yeah, Adobe is a bunch of monkeys pounding at keyboards. IE does pretty much the same thing for me (a long pause). I use mozilla (as opposed to firebird), and killing acrobat just turns the window/tab that was showing a PDF blank until I navigate somewhere else (or it did last time I tried).