[PLUG] acroread plugin that doesn't zonk the box (maybe?)

Jason Van Cleve jason at vancleve.com
Thu Dec 23 19:07:28 UTC 2004


Quoth Russell Senior, on 20 Dec 2004 23:52:19 -0800:

> I've been using the acroread plugin with mozilla.  When I load a PDF,
> CPU utilization goes to 100% and stays there until I close the PDF.
> Evidently, a newer version of acroread (5.10 for linux) corrects
> this.  Indeed, installing the new version and restarting mozilla seems
> to have fixed it.

Had the same annoyance.  I installed xpdf and connected that with
Mozilla instead of acroread.  Much better!  Note, you may have to remove
the acroread plugin manually in order to invoke xpdf from Mozilla.

--Jason

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