283862 - Acroread plugin works very slowly under Linux; high memeory usage

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[Hardy Mayer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050224 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050224 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.1

The acrobat plugin in firefox 1.0.1 displays PDF extremely slowly and the memory
usage seems excessive. The scrollwheel does not work either and moving or
rediplaying pages in a largish pdf file is frustrating (it actually seems to
slow down the whol X11 behavior). 

I had a similar problem under Mac OS 10.3.8, but replacing the acrobat plugin
with an open source plugin from Schubert fixed this and works fine. 

Shouldn't someone develop an xpdf plugin?  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on a link to a largish PDF file  (e.e. at the archive listed above). 
2. Wait a few minutes for it to display.  After a while it gets sluggish 
3. if you swithc to other tabs and back the redisplay is excruciatingly slow. 
Actual Results:  
Got frustrated and  looked at the same file on my Mac Powerbook, with the
Schuber plugin

Expected Results:  
Be quichk, and memory-efficient (i.e., avoid acrobat plugin). 

On windoze (which I seldom use) firefox behaves somewhat better.  At least the
scrollwheel works.

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

plugin issue, contact the vendor. Note the latest acrobat release (7.0, not sure
if a linux one is out yet) has improved.

Comment 2

[Hardy Mayer]

Thanks -- I fould a slightly newer Acroread (5.0.10) which seems a bit faster.
The Windows and Mac OS versions are 7.0

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

I suggest on linux to not use a plugin but let the OS handle it (load gpdf or
whatever WM you uses defaults to).