154999 - PDF files don't load in Mozilla 1.1a if you click from a web page

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 204550

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[shadytrees]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611
BuildID:    2002061104

When you view a web page with links to pdf files and you have Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 in Mozilla 1.1a, the pdf does not load. Instead, there is simply a blank page like the one you get if you go to about:blank. The workaround this is to right-click, and "Save Link Target As...", and save the file. Is this Mozilla's problem or Acrobat Reader's problem?

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to a web page with links to pdf files.
2.Click on the link.
3.A blank page appears.

Actual Results:  A blank page appeared.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should have loaded the pdf file using the Adobe Acrobat Plug-In Version 5.00 for Netscape.

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

works for me, using build 2002062604 and Acrobat reader 4.0

Comment 2

[shadytrees]

I have build 2002061104 and Acrobat Reader 5.0.

Comment 3

[Frederic Bezies]

WFM too :-)

Trunk build 2002070504 - WinXP - acrobat plugin 5.0.5

Marking this bug as WFM ?

Comment 4

[Alan S. Jones]

I may be seeing the same problem on build 2002071308 Windows 2000.

Some of the pages on http://www.ontrack.com/library/ work and some like this did
not work for me.

This is one of those that failed.
http://www.ontrack.com/library/rr-efficiency.pdf

the ones that failed seemed larger.

I am going to grab a newer build to test.

Comment 5

[Alan S. Jones]

I am seeing the above issues I mentioned in a trunk build from today 2002072708.
 It sounds the same as this bug.

I have Acrobat Reader 5.01.

Can the original reporter and others test and confirm?

Comment 6

[shadytrees]

I have downloaded Mozilla 1.1 Beta (build 2002072104) and
http://www.ontrack.com/library/rr-efficiency.pdf does not work either. I have
Acrobat Reader 5.0.5 (Help->About at the top). It does seem that some .pdf files
load whiles others don't. Does http://www.ontrack.com/library/rr-efficiency.pdf
work with anyone who has an older version of Acrobat Reader? Pdf files worked in
Mozilla 1.0, BTW.

Comment 7

[Samir Gehani]

-> File Handling

Comment 8

[Taj Morton]

Problem: Moz expects the PDF plugin to be there... If it's not, nothing happens.
This is affecting me with 2003062608...

Comment 9

[Renato Mercurio]

I have the same problem using Windows 2000 SP4, Mozilla 1.5a (Build 2003071814)
and Acrobat 6. I had it already using Windows 2000 SP1, Mozilla 1.3.1 and
Acrobat 5. The Plugin Manager reports, that I have the right Acrobat plugin
successfully installed. It is boring and makes me switch to IE6, because I view
lots of PDFs.

Comment 10

[Sander van Rijnswou]

Yup, same here.

Mozilla 2004011316. Acrobat Reader 5.0
Windows 2000 SP3

Reading Pdf's used to work. Now it doesn't. When you click on a pdf you get a
blank screen. About:plugins report I have a working nppdf32.dll

Comment 11

[Renato Mercurio]

I think, Bug #154999 should be marked as a duplicate of #204550. We are much
closer to a solution there and have found a good workaround so far.

Comment 12

[shadytrees]

Sorry, really bad clicking.

Comment 13

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

Resolving as dupe per comment 11.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 204550 ***

Comment 14

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Removing bug 204550 from "depends on:" because this bug is closed as DUP of it.