273787 - Firefox instance freezes while Adobe loads PDF.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 173061

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Ammerman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When Firefox uses Adobe to load and render a PDF file, that instance of Firefox
becomes completely unusable.  The PDF file cannot be navigated away from, other
tabs cannot be used to look other pages, no new tabs can be created, menus
cannot be opened.  Complete usability returns once the PDF has completed
rendering.  It would be nice if the menus and other tabs could be used while the
file loads and renders

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Navigate to a url that is a pdf file.
2.Attempt to change tabs or navigate back or forward from PDF file.

Actual Results:  
At step 1, Adobe was loaded.  Step 2 produces no effect until the PDF has been
completely rendered.

Expected Results:  
I expected that other tabs would at least be usable while the PDF was loading
and rendering.

Opening another instance of Firefox, or using a separate instance that is
already open, works fine.

Comment 1

[Mike Kowalski]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 173061 ***