Re: Adobe Reader Plugin on F9

["TV Sivaraman" <tvsraman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi:
I installed as per instructions in http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f9.html#acroba and my FF3 has no problem opening a pdf file in the browser. If you are comfortable you can also do the somewhat hard way:
1. download Adobe Reader rpm from adobe site.
2. install rpm rpm -ivh <adobe rpm>
3. /opt/Adobe/Reader/Browser/install-browser_plugin (as a root)
4. select global install option
Above script should find FF3 plugin directory and install the .so file.
Sivaraman.

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Kevin J. Cummings <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Frank Cox wrote:

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:25:26 -0400
"Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I see this on occasion, but not all the time.

A problem that I've found when allowing acroread to load pdf files into the
Firefox window is that acroread will go wild if you close the tab.

Open a new tab in Firefox.  Load a PDF into the Firefox window.  Close the
tab.  100% of the time, I see 100% cpu usage until I "killall acroread".

This is on Fedora 8/x86_64 with FF 2, so it may be different or changed/fixed on
F9.

I've been using FF3 on F9.  One of the things happened to me recently was I was looking at a PDF in FF, I left the computer for 2 hours.  When I returned, the acroread plugin had run wild grabbing memory.  The OOM process was running trying to find processes to kill, my 2GB of swapspace was practically full, and the machine was very sluggish (thrashing).  I got control back after I was finally able to kill FF and acroread....  I was then able to turn off swap and re-enable it, and I was still using less than 30% of my 2GB of RAM after that!  Yes, I agree, FF and acroread are memory hungry.  BTW, this was with the acroread (AdobeReader?) tab still open....

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