Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-26 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:22:35 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: When opening PDFs documents in Firefox (e.g. by clicking on a PDF link in a webpage), it sometimes happens to my Firefox to stuck when loading the PDF. The PDF seems to be completely downloaded, but does not load in the acrobat

[OT] (mis)translations. was Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-18 Thread Lisi
On Friday 17 February 2012 21:23:27 Curt wrote: On 2012-02-17, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: [1] The gates of Hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent and     easy is the way.  But to return, and view the cheerful skies,     In this the task and mighty labor lies.  -- Virgil, The

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-18 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:22:07 + (UTC) Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:01:57 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:59:49AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:22, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be

Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, When opening PDFs documents in Firefox (e.g. by clicking on a PDF link in a webpage), it sometimes happens to my Firefox to stuck when loading the PDF. The PDF seems to be completely downloaded, but does not load in the acrobat plug-in. However,

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:22, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, When opening PDFs documents in Firefox (e.g. by clicking on a PDF link in a webpage), it sometimes happens to my Firefox to stuck when loading the PDF.

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:59:49AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:22, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, When opening PDFs documents in Firefox (e.g. by clicking on a PDF link in a

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:22, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, When opening PDFs documents in Firefox (e.g. by clicking on

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-17, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote: 2) Why are you opening in the browser? I have never ever found that to work well, with any combo of OS, browser and PDF reader. I either I have found it to work very well in google-chrome, with the latter's built-in pdf reader (should

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Curt wrote: Kelly Clowers wrote: 2) Why are you opening in the browser? I have never ever found that to work well, with any combo of OS, browser and PDF reader. I either I have found it to work very well in google-chrome, with the latter's built-in pdf reader (should I say the latter when

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:03, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2012-02-17, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote: launch the PDF reader as a separate process from the browser, or save the PDF and then open it. PDF-as-plugin is just plain flaky. I find it superior to invoking a separate

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-17, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: But since that is nonfree it isn't in the free Chromium. AFAIK only the nonfree Chrome has the builtin Flash and Adobe and other such components. AFAIK that is the difference between Chrome and Chromium. I was responding to an unqualified

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-17, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote: But FF2-4, IE6-9, Moz1-SM2.0 on Linux and Windows have all given me problems when running PDFs in the browser. Others my be luckier. Well, the built-in, home-made Chrome PDF Viewer plugin is quite nice and smooth, and is even capable

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:01:57 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:59:49AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:22, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, When opening PDFs documents

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Curt wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: But since that is nonfree it isn't in the free Chromium. AFAIK only the nonfree Chrome has the builtin Flash and Adobe and other such components. AFAIK that is the difference between Chrome and Chromium. I was responding to an unqualified statement (I

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-17, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: [1] The gates of Hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent and easy is the way. But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies. -- Virgil, The Aeneid=20 Matthew 5:38 and 39: ...resist not