PDF close very slowly in Firefox

Hello,

When I'm opening an PDF file in a firefox tab, which is not a big
problem (even though it could be faster... how?)...
the big problem comes when I try to close the tab with the PDF, or when
I want to go back ("back" button) : Firefox frozes for
some seconds or minutes (depending on how big is the PDF) before closing
the PDF.

I find it very annoying because I open quite often PDF files and this
problem makes the navigation very slow...

Thanks for all your suggestions to cope with that !

Thomas

 

Adobe Reader Speedup - http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/prods/misc/

Tony

 

What version of the Acrobat Reader are you using? Many people have
reported much better performance with version 7, as opposed to the last
couple of versions:

http://www.adobe.co.uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Lee

 

You might check into upgrading Adobe Reader to version 7, which is MUCH
faster to load, and end...

 

Note to OP, the cross posting is not necessary. You can see how Ron and
I have now duplicated posts. Since I have the netscape.public hierarchy
set up on a different server, I can't respond to both groups at one time.

When cross posting is truly needed, settings a followup to the preferred
group is a courtesy.

Lee

 

I banned all versions of acrobat 5.0 or after learning that pdf
documents can execute code. I do not know the full details, but I
really don't need another type of improperly secured exection
environment to worry about.

 

Adobe Acrobat is OS dependant, Ver 7 is only for Win2000 sp2 and XP.
If you are running Win98 you need Ver 5.05 Win98SE Ver6.01 see:
http://www.adobe.co.uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html to determine
which version you need.

 

I've seen Adobe Reader 7 mentioned several times. When I go to the
Adobe site, they state that 6.01 is the latest version and that's all I
can find to download.

Where is version 7 hiding???

 

Note Graeme's response, version 7 is available for XP and 2000 only.

Lee

 

http://www.adobe.co.uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

 

Yes, I saw that after I posted. So I'm stuck with 6.01 which freezes
Firefox every time and freezes my computer (so that Ctrl-Alt-Delete
doesn't work) quite often. And I must keep Windows 98 because nothing
newer will run my FoxPro applications which I must run.

 

First of all, try going back to Reader 5, which by most accounts ran
better then 6 ever did. Second, look back through this thread for
Tony's link to the speedup:

http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/prods/misc/

Lee

 

Version 7 requires Win2000 or WinXP, or later.