Wow, I'm blown away. As I said below I killed Firefox when it appeared
that the third manual I was after was never going to arrive. But
apparently Firefox kicks off a separate process to handle the file
transfer. Despite the fact that I had killed Firefox and gone on to do
other things the requested PDF file suddenly popped up on my screen
several minutes later.
I have to say now I most certainly don't see any problem with Firefox
displaying PDFs found as a result of a Google search. It did it despite
being treated by me with "extreme prejudice". :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/9/2013 4:58 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I've no idea what Aurora is but I also use Firefox and have never
> noticed any particular problems with PDFs resulting from a Google
> search. I used Google just an hour or so ago to locate PDFs of three
> different camera manuals. Response was a little bit slow but nothing I
> would consider unusual given the vagaries of web service. I just tried
> again with another 3 manuals. The first two were received fine but also
> a bit slow. But all 6 files mentioned here were coming from the same
> web site. On the sixth file something very strange happened. It
> appeared that absolutely nothing was happening for a couple of minutes
> on what should have been a fairly small PDF of maybe 1/2 dozen pages. I
> thought Firefox had died but the task manager showed it fairly well
> idling along with about 1% CPU usage and memory usage slowly rising and
> falling a few megabytes. Then I closed all the open tabs which it did
> instantly and without complaint. Verdict: Very slow web site.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 1/7/2013 11:37 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
>> And to change the topic yet a bit more, I am now using Mozilla Firefox
>> Aurora browser. Chrome is now side-lined permanently, except for some
>> specific duties. Mozilla does not put my HDD through the contortions that
>> Chrome does, and the presentation seems comfortable. My only grouch is
>> that Firefox, as for the older Opera browsers I have, gets totally
>> paralysed if
>> given the job of opening a pdf file encountered in a google search. This
>> usually results in 10 minutes being spent getting the system back on
>> track.
>> Chrome handles these files with (hackneyed phrase) consummate ease.
>>
>> Brian Swale
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