186929 - Fails to launch Adobe Acrobat 5.05 in 1.3

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Frank Ostlinger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

At http://www.overlandmodels.com, there is a link to view the company's parts
catalog, presented as a .pdf-file. Clicking on that link produces nothing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.overlandmodels.com.
2. Click on the "Parts" tab.
3. Scroll down and click on "Parts Catalog."

Actual Results:  
Nothing happened. Following the same steps using Netscape 4.7 yielded the catalog.

Expected Results:  
Launched Acrobat and enabled user to see catalog.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

over to "general" since this has nothing to do with the preferences dialog...

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

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Comment 3

[Emma Haruka Iwao]

I tried this and Mozilla did launch acrobat in his window.

with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212,
Acrobat 5.05

Comment 4

[Chris Lyon]

->Plugins

Comment 5

[Chris Lyon]

.

Comment 6

[Yves Lambert]

Attachment: hint

Caution: Acrobat reader installer attempts to install adobe download manager.
check plugins and registry after installation of the reader

Comment 7

[Bharat]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest nightly (or even 1.5)?
If not, this bug can be closed. Thanks.

Comment 8

[Bharat]

WFM on Win98 with Moz 1.5. Marking so.
Reporter, if you feel this bug has been closed in error, please reopen.