Firefox 3.5

Microsoft would be spending 99% of their effort on ways to disable the program for people they don't think have paid for it or have the right to use.

Has the CPU hogging problem been fixed? Art

What hogging? Mine needs short 4% bursts. What hogs and hangs is when Adobe Acrobat Reader fires up, IMHO one of the worst pieces of SW ever written in terms of crash frequency.

It's that special "Joerg version" ;-)

...Jim Thompson

The CPU usage goes to 100% for several seconds, FF is totally non-responsive to mouse/KB input, as is all other programs. Google "firefox cpu". It's a well known problem for which I've tried the known solutions to no effect. I agree with you about Acrobat Reader. It halts everything else when firing up inside of any browser, or outside. Art

Don't see much problems either. IMHO the more of the web browsers you have installed, the more unnecessary problems and holes in the security you have added by yourself.

Acrobat gets slower and more hungry with every new version.

Vladimir Vassilevsky DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant

Adobe may be the only major operation that programs worse than Microsoft.

I use Foxit Reader (*not* as a browser plugin) to view pdf's, CutePDF (as a virtual printer) to make them. Both are solid and blinding fast.

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I'd call it fixed with the new release.

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Dump Acrobat, Foxit is infinitely better on or offline:

Mark L. Fergerson

That may very well be true, although I used to believe that wasn't possible.

But I need to see PDFs right out of the browser and out of the email program. Store to disk and then view is impossible in my line of work.

It works. When I click on a pdf from Firefox, it pops a dialog box to ask me if I want to view immediately or save to disk. I can even set the default to always view. But it's not a browser plugin, it's just the Windows file type association. Word isn't a browser plugin either. Or Irfanview, which I use to view attached jpegs and gifs and tiffs.

John

Ok, that's only one click more and would work. Often I receive emails with loads of PDFs and whatnot attached. Seconds later the phone rings, with a client asking me to guide them through.

I just installed Foxit on my machine.

When I click on a pdf file ( from Microchip web site for instance) Firefox open a new window with the selected file.

How do I get it to open in the browser ??

I downloaded the Firefox plugin and installed it ( Foxit is listed in the Addons ) but it still opens a new window.

Any ideas ?

don

PS: I set this same note to Foxit, but I am sure that will take longer.

I installed Firefox 3.4 this morning as well.

don

Yes, just downloaded and installed 3.5. I like the new "open a new tab button". I also use Foxit Reader, Click on a pdf file and it opens in a new window, much faster than Acrobat. Mike

That was already available if you "customized" your toolbar.

I use the full Acrobat v7 (not the Reader), have no troubles whatsoever.

...Jim Thompson

I don't know off hand, but I don't see any advantage in doing it that way. The only visible difference is the program name in the title bar.

Foxit often fails on PDFs with editable fields (like a form to fill out), but works on all the other PDFs.

It's also better in that you don't have to install it. It can run as a single EXE from a flash drive for example. But that may only be true of earlier versions.

The user manual states that Firefox browser should open PDF files in the browser.

The Foxit plugin for Firefox kind of suggests that as well.

But it does not work.

Why did they put it in then ?

I noticed that the entire pdf file must be downloaded before the file will open at all.

With Acrobat, the file would open right away and you can see the first page.

I understand why people are miffed with Acrobat "hanging" their systems. I was hopeing Foxit would have fixed that.

Now the pdf file hangs until its fully downloaded.

don

IIRC, for that capability to be present the PDF file must have been saved in the "fast web view" format.

From the help file for PDFCreator: "Fast web view: When this setting is used, PDFCreator will optimize its PDF's [sic] for fast web viewing. Instead of the entire PDF document being downloaded before being displayed, it will display it as it is downloaded."

Which isn't to say that some reader implementations may not support display-while-loading or may do so incorrectly.

Because they hoped it would work, maybe?

As a rule of thumb, if something doesn't work, don't use it that way, especially if it isn't necessary.

That is NOT a hang. You're waiting for transmission, not processing.