Adobe Reader Plugin on F9

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 15:34 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:25:26 -0400
> "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
> 
> > I see this on occasion, but not all the time. 
> 
> A problem that I've found when allowing acroread to load pdf files into the
> Firefox window is that acroread will go wild if you close the tab.
> 
> Open a new tab in Firefox.  Load a PDF into the Firefox window.  Close the
> tab.  100% of the time, I see 100% cpu usage until I "killall acroread".
> 
> This is on Fedora 8/x86_64 with FF 2, so it may be different or changed/fixed on
> F9.
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It's a little better behaved on FF3/F9 but I always felt that it was a
memory thing when you have combined the two biggest memory hogs on
Fedora in one running process. Sometimes, simply refreshing the page
helps.

Craig