Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 06/09/06 13:38

Ed Mulroy wrote:

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>> Jonathan N. Little wrote in message
>> news:1cdc0$4488f9f2$40cba7a9$10185@NAXS.COM...
>>
>>> If the truth be known, I'd gladly trade Firefox' better css support for
>>> it not occasionally locking up when it shells to Adobe Acrobat to display
>>> a *.PDF file. Unlike IE it has tabs and when one instance locks up that
>>> often means 3 other pages are also gone.
>>>
>> What are you talking about?
>
> The tabs are pleasant. However when it locks up and you have to cancel the
> process to get rid of it all the pages shown in tabs are closed along with
> the page in which Adobe Acrobat failed. My current defense for this is that
> when encountering a link to a PDF file, copy the link, start an instance of
>IE and open it in an IE window.

Firstly, the only issue with PDF was years ago with Acrobat 5.x and the
issue was with Adobe not Firefox, Acrobat 6.x and now 7.x has no issue.
I have had no problems with PDFs in Firefox.

As to lockups, how is Firefox lockups requiring a kill process worse
than IE lockups that at the very least kills the Desktop and the worst
brings down the OS! I do not see your argument here.

What is most annoying however is the all too common progression of your
thread. "My deprecated markup does not validate" NG informs you where
the trouble lies and the reply is "But I want the deprecated markup"
Well then your markup will not validate as strict and also will loose
out on many of the advantages of new approaches to design. It begs the
question why folks ask questions when they really do not want to hear
answers?


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Take care,

Jonathan
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