Posted by Benjamin Niemann on 06/26/06 20:54

Ioannis wrote:

> I am using Windows XP Home edition SP1 fully patched. Everytime I click on
> a .pdf link, IE 6 loads the page correctly, (probably by using the Acrobat
> Reader plugin) and displays fine. But when I quit the .pdf file, either as
> a result of clicking on a new link or moving onto a different web
> location, looking at TaskManager, a process "Acrobat.exe", continues being
> loaded into memory, occupying around 12 Megabytes, subsequently slowing my
> system down.
>
> If I shut it down manually from TaskManager, all is ok. Question is, is
> there a way to have this process (Acrobat.exe) unload automatically
> whenever I move away from a .pdf page or is it some sort of XP glitch
> that's unavoidable to always have it loaded automatically on every visit
> to a .pdf link?

This behaviour is intentional. Startup time of the acrobat plugin is
annoyingly long, so it tries to reduce it a bit (for the second and later
usage) by staying around in memory.
There may be an option in acrobats preferences to disable this "feature".
But this is really a question for Adobe support and has nothing to do with
HTML...

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Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/

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