Adobe Reader 9 plugin problem in W7b

[Marin85]

I have AVG installed on my main system, but I don´t have any AV installed on Win 7 beta setup or actually anything else much (but I´m about to install some benchmarking utilities to test it thoroughly ). What I reported with the .pfd-s opened in multiple tabs in IE8 happened actually after I had reinstalled Acrobat Reader v9, updated it and uninstalled Adobe AIR and Adobe.com to try out how it would be going with the updates installed. I´ll try it the other way around - installing Reader, removing AIR and .com and installing the updates. But I doubt that this would change anything for me...

BTW, when I close IE8 with a .pdf not opened in one of the tabs and the error message from Adobe, Win 7 gives "IE8 stopped responding" -> sending a report -> details: it´s referring to the Tmp folder... I also checked event log and it is massively full of errors, but that´s probably because of the beta. I found a few referring to DHCPv6 at the same time as Adober Reader acted up, so I "disabled" IPv6 (everything of it) by registry and rebooted, it seemed to have made things better, but not entirely... I´m afraid the problem is probably more complex than apparent. Since Acorbat Pro is reported to be properly working with IE8, I wonder what is missing in Adobe Reader to do so as well...

Cheers,

Marin

[Marin85]

Update: I installed the German language version of Adobe Reader 9 and all problems are now gone My Win 7 is in English but has regional settings set to Germany. Maybe it´s also worth mentioning tah the German language version of Adobe Reader v9 doesn´t come with Adobe AIR or Adobe.com. I haven´t tried to update it yet. Since it worked out "out of the box", I guess it´s just some sort of language/regional settings conflict.

Cheers

Marin

[GomJabbar]

Here is an interesting thread from Adobe's forum.

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.59b692e5

[Marin85]

Here is an interesting thread from Adobe's forum.

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.59b692e5

Isn´t there anyone to point these misguided souls to our thread?

[GomJabbar]

I haven't tried to view any pdf's in a couple of weeks. Now it's back to the old behavior. PDF's not opening in the browser anymore.

[Marin85]

workaround: learn German -> install the German version of Adobe Reader -> German things seem to work always

Now, seriously, you could try out the UK verison of Adobe Reader (or any other), although that´s not really a solution even if it happens to work out...

BTW, I completely moved to Win 7, installed Adcrobat Pro and I can confirm that it indeed works without problems so far.

[GomJabbar]

The UK version includes Adobe Air and Acrobat.com. I unistalled the US English version, rebooted, then installed the Spanish version which does not include Adobe Air or Acrobat.com (and is about a 9Mb smaller download), but it still will not open a PDF in a browser window.

I give up for now. I uninstalled the Spanish version of Adobe Reader 9 and reinstalled the US English version. I have Opera set up to open PDFs with Adobe Reader rather than the Acrobat plug-in. I have the preferences in Adobe Reader unchecked for "Display PDF in browser", so IE opens PDFs in a separate Adobe Reader window (just like Opera now).

[Marin85]

Actually, the Pro version also happens to produce this error sometimes Refreshing the page a few times seems to work around the problem for now...

[Marin85]

Just found out: if one has first started an instance of Adobe Reader, then opening a .pdf in the browser doesn´t produce the error.