FireFox crashes when opening PDF links w/ latest FoxyProxy
I click a PDF link. Instead of the usual dialog asking to Save, Open, etc. I get a blank page. If I reload (F5) the dialog appears and I can open the PDF, but FireFox crashes. I disabled all my addons and enabled each one-by-one. Tracked it down to FoxyProxy. Would not have been my first guess, but there it is. Happens with any PDF, not just the one from the crash report below.
Here is the info that the firefox crash report sends:
Add-ons: {1280606b-2510-4fe0-97ef-9b5a22eafe80}:0.3.9.1,{2fa4ed95-0317-4c6a-a74c-5f3e3912c1f9}:2.0.104,foxyproxy@eric.h.jung:2.8.9,{582195F5-92E7-40a0-A127-DB71295901D7}:0.5.5,{7F364BE2-D493-11DA-BE96-9966D6839540}:2.5.3,notebook@google.com:1.0.0.22,{3112ca9c-de6d-4884-a869-9855de68056c}:3.1.20080730W,{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781}:0.8.20080609.0,{77b819fa-95ad-4f2c-ac7c-486b356188a9}:1.5.20080823,itsalltext@docwhat.gerf.org:0.8.5,{CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0001-ABCDEFFEDCBA}:6.0.01,{8f8fe09b-0bd3-4470-bc1b-8cad42b8203a}:0.14,{6949DC66-E5E4-4bf0-B364-84F23ED81319}:2.4.3,{8FFE139B-90A7-4460-A972-9D2738997F6D}:1.6.1,{F645A8C9-E969-42D9-B3F3-F325537222FD}:1.1.4,rtmgmail@rememberthemilk.com:1.0.3,secureLogin@blueimp.net:0.9.2.9,{94D438B0-C561-11DA-ABDA-D530ACCB55DD}:1.0,tabulator@csail.mit.edu:0.8.5,twitternotifier@naan.net:1.7.2,ubiquity@labs.mozilla.com:0.1.1,{c45c406e-ab73-11d8-be73-000a95be3b12}:1.1.6,zotero@chnm.gmu.edu:1.5-sync2.2,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:3.0.3
BuildID: 2008092417
CrashTime: 1223905059
InstallTime: 1222783317
ProductName: Firefox
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 2708
StartupTime: 1223904884
Theme: classic/1.0
URL: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k42216&pageid=icb.page19809...
UserID: fae4b34e-86bb-48d4-ae81-5991faf92c2d
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 3.0.3
This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.
I had a similar issue,
I had a similar issue, Firefox crashing every time I tried to open a PDF, but I could solve the problem with deactivating the Adobe Acrobat Plugin.
Crash opening PDF
I have the same issue. What to do? Switching to chrome?!?!?
Hi, Which FoxyProxy and
Hi,
Which FoxyProxy and Firefox versions are you using, and which operating system?
Thanks,
Eric
I have yet to see this. can't create it on purpose at the moment
I have yet to see this. can't create it on purpose at the moment, I have my debug rigs on standby for another attempt to recreate it.
(I don't know why all these problems don't happen to me, except when I run 3.1b)
.pdf causes Firefox 3.0.6 to crash
I had the same problem after installing Firefox 3.0.6...
If Firefox 3.0.6 consistently crashes while attempting to open a .pdf document in a new tab and you use Adobe Reader as your .pdf viewer outside Firefox (I'm using Adobe Reader 9.0), open the 'Tools' --> 'Options' --> 'Applications' tab. Under this tab, change your default program for opening all Adobe Acrobat and Reader format documents to 'Adobe Reader v x.x', where 'x.x' is the current Adobe Reader version on your computer (for me: 'Adobe Reader 9.0').
After making this change, Firefox will open the download dialog box, perform a virus scan on the downloaded file, and then the .pdf will open automatically outside Firefox --- not 100% optimal since it is not a new tab within Firefox, but until they can work out the bug, at least it is a stable option, and it only requires a single mouse-click on the .pdf link.
Hope that helps.
Make sure you are using the
Make sure you are using the latest version of FoxyProxy (2.8.11), because recently a problem was fixed whereby plugins, such as Adobe Acrobat for Firefox, were inadvertently disabled. See http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/drupal/content/foxyproxy-286-force-enables-a... and http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/drupal/content/disabling-plugins-does-not-wo... for more info; Firefox bug opened at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471245 but FoxyProxy 2.8.11 works around the Firefox bug... so use it!!
Thanks for the workaround-
Thanks for the workaround- it was driving me nuts!