832271 - Unable to view PDF with EMBED tag

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 738967

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect)

Description

[Bader Zaidan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:21.0) Gecko/20130117 Firefox/21.0
Build ID: 20130117030933

Steps to reproduce:

1. Visit the page:  https://moztrap.mozilla.org/media/attachments/2013/01/18/embeddedPDFsTestPage.html


Actual results:

 The PDF embedded with the object tag works, but the EMBED Tag displays the error: "A plugin is needed to display this content."


Expected results:

Both pdf files should have been viewable

Comment 1

[Bader Zaidan]

Same error is given with Firefox 19 and Nightly.

Comment 2

[Ioana (away)]

Confirmed on Firefox 19 beta 2 and the latest Nightly on Windows 8 32bit.

When you have a PDF viewing app installed on your PC, you get the following behavior:

The first pdf is displayed with the inline PDF viewer, and for the second one I get the "This plugin has security vulnerabilities..." CTP warning. After clicking that warning, the second pdf is displayed with the pdf app (Foxit Reader in my case).