Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$

Chad Perrin perrin at apotheon.com
Wed Dec 12 18:01:27 UTC 2012


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 05:16:12PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> 
> This problem has been annoying me for some time now, but until now
> it was never really an issue that I could not easily work-around.
> 
> I was just trying to download a PDF document off of the Pacer[tm]
> federal courts web site.  These are not free.  They cost ten cents
> per page.  I tried to download a 29 page document and it downloaded
> into firefox just fine and then was displayed in a new firefox tab
> which was apparently using acroread8 to display the document.
> 
> I know from past experience that acroreadN runs like crap on FreeBSD...
> often using up enormous amounts of CPU % for no apparently good reason.
> But this time it really got my goat.  I clicked on the little acroread
> icon for printing the current document, a pop-up dialog box for printing
> came up, but before I could hit the print button on that, everything
> relating to firefox... all open tabs and all open windows... froze up
> solid.
> 
> Now, having wasted three bucks for no good reason (and STILL not having
> a hardcopy of the document I wanted), I am motivated to finally get this
> sorted out.
> 
> So, on FreeBSD, how does one get firefox and/or opera to use, for example,
> evince or some other PDF displayer instead of using this goddamn lousey
> buggy *&^%$#@ acroread ?

The first thing to do should simply be to uninstall acroread.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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