550376 - Acrobat Reader 7.1.4 plugin crashes Firefox 3.6

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[John Nishinaga]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Going to the referenced URL crashes the browser after clicking on the "open PDF" button multiple times.  This was tested on Windows XP with Acrobat Reader 7.1.4 and Firefox 3.6.

Note, the following configurations did *not* exhibit the described problem:

  Acrobat Reader 7.1.4 and Firefox 3.5.8
  Acrobat Reader 9.3.1 and Firefox 3.6


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go the referenced URL
2. Click on "open PDF" button on the page at least twice

Actual Results:  
The browser crashes.

Expected Results:  
The browser does not crash. ;-)


Unclear whether or not this issue is an Adobe problem.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Well, adobe reader 7.1.4 is extremely old and no longer supported. So, you shouldn't be using that version.