Adobe Reader Plugin on F9

[TV Sivaraman]

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 at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:

> Frank Cox wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:25:26 -0400
>> "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> 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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