167165 - Adobe Acrobat Reader process does not terminate when pdf document closed.

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Plugins Graveyard :: PDF (Adobe), defect)

Description

[M M]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

When opening a .pdf file, the plugin loads an acrobat reader process.  When the
window/tab/document is closed, the process (acrord32.exe) is left running,
taking up 18MB of RAM on my machine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open pdf file in mozilla, eg: http://www.etestinglabs.com/main/reports/gateway.pdf
2.Close window/tab and/or Mozilla
3.Note process acrord32.exe still taking up resources.

Actual Results:  
acrord32.exe still taking up resources.

Expected Results:  
unloaded acrord32 if there were no more pdfs open

Comment 1

[shrirang khanzode]

mike, we had several bugs on the same issue in the past. They were marked as 
invalid. I agree with you that acroread.exe should close...but the viewer is 
used as a plugin and not as a helper app, adobe should take care of this process 
running...mozilla/nscp cannot do anything. would you like to close this one out 
? Otherwise, pls explain and leave it open, thx!

Comment 2

[serge (gone)]

yeah, this is abobe's feature, try IE and you'll get the same.

Comment 3

[M M]

I have been told this is acrobat's problem.

Comment 4

[shrirang khanzode]

:) Thx!

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 201871 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 291506 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Gérard Talbot]

*** Bug 254511 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Gérard Talbot]

Updated summary to help search for duplicates

Comment 9

[Gérard Talbot]

*** Bug 360101 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Gérard Talbot]

Tweaking summary again to help search/find for duplicates