Doug8765
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Hi -
I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but one of your experts suggested (Broni, in the malware thread) to try this forum.
Any suggestions?
If this is the wrong forum, please advise.
Doug
I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but one of your experts suggested (Broni, in the malware thread) to try this forum.
- A couple years ago I decided to try out a different PDF reader, Foxit. Right away I did not like it and I uninstalled the thing.
- Ever since, I cannot read any PDFs that are embedded in the URL, such as this one that I just tried after I recently reinstalled Firefox: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11366935/Opt...II_11-2011.pdf.
- This problem does not exist for PDFs that are attached to files. For that the Adobe PDF reader successfully gets the job done.
- I have tried repeatedly to go to the Firefox support and there are some entries there about people who have this problem also, but there's no help in getting rid of the problem.
- Apparently, even if you delete/uninstall Foxit, somehow Firefox still wants to use Foxit to read the URL. In such a state, a non-existent app is given the task of reading the PDF.
- In the past I brought this problem to Tech Spot and the proffered solution was to uninstall Firefox and reinstall. At the time I was unwilling to uninstall Firefox for fear of losing my bookmarks. However, now I have uninstalled Firefox and reinstalled Firefox (thank you Broni, for the authoritative uninstall/reinstall link from Mozilla) and the dang nonexistent Foxit reader still has the job of reading PDFs that are embedded in a URL.
- My workaround has been always to edit|copy the URLs that have .PDF extensions and paste them into IE. That's irritating, but it does work.
Any suggestions?
If this is the wrong forum, please advise.
Doug