F18: Adobe Acrobat Reader fails hyperlinks? [SOLVED]

[Doug]

On 11/26/2013 07:59 PM, David wrote:
> On 11/26/2013 6:57 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:
>> On 11/23/2013 12:41 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:
>>>
>>> It appears that on Fedora 18, Adobe Acrobat Reader
>>> hyperlinks (control-left-click on link) fails to execute
>>> properly and bring up the the web page.
>>>
>>> I tried the same PDF file on F13 and it works.
>>>
>>> Is it a bug or is there something I need to do
>>> to make this work?
>>>
>> I changed the Firefox preference->Application: "Portable
>> Document Format (PDF)" from "Preview in Firefox" to
>> "Use Adobe Reader 9.5 (in Firefox)" and now PDF hyperlinks
>> works!
> 
> 
> Congratulations! You went from a reasonably safe Firefox feature to a
> known buggy and security unsecured Adobe Reader.
> 
> Google search for "Adobe Reader Security Breach".
> 
Probably the reason that Adobe won't make anything more for Linux is
that so many people like this bitch about it all the time.

--doug

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