[19854] in Athena Bugs
Re: 14.A02 and acrobat plugins
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Tue Oct 2 15:39:00 2001
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 15:38:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
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Indeed. Um, there are some mysteries here if what you're describing is
true. Let me look into it. The short answer is that the fixes you describe
have all either been done, or should be completely unnecessary.
Oh, and I am sorry to say that plugin-vs-standalone may not help the crash
problem very much; both versions apparently have problems with large
documents. Stay tuned.
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, John Hawkinson wrote:
> SIPB has been getting piles of people walking in asking
> what to do about netscape crashing when displaying large
> PDF files, many from 14.A02.
>
> I'm under the impression that Netscape should not be using
> the acrobat plugin by default anymore -- but it seems to be
> in a large number of cases.
>
> Am I wrong about the default?
>
> Can netcape-fix be enhanced to remove the plug-in?
>
> It would be nice to give users something a bit more cookbook
> (add infoagents; netscape-fix) rather than having to have
> each and every one of them edit their preferences.
>
> --jhawk
>
