Firefox help requested

[faithellen]

I'm not exactly sure what's changed recently, but I can't view PDF files in Firefox. It think it's loading the PDF, and will display "done" in the lower left corner, but the page is blank. I can right-click and opt to view most things in the external application, but not in the case of passworded sites.

I have Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional and Adobe Reader 7.0. I'm running Firefox 1.5.0.4, and my computer is running WinXP with SP2.

Anyone have any ideas?

Comments

[snipeyhead.livejournal.com]

Can you view them in anything other than FF? I ask because Adobe Updater can be kinda retarded, and the dialogue box can sort of hide itself. When that happens, it gets stuck, since it's waiting from a response from you (but you can't see that, since the window is hidden.)

That's the only thing I can think of. Stupid Acrobat seems to need to update quite often.

[faithellen]

I tried in IE too, with no luck.

I hate computers today. My laptop also stopped pushing my email to my cell today -- I've uninstalled and reinstalled all applications in all locations 3 times, and nothing fixed it.

[faithellen]

Sadly, it's my work laptop. I have no control. (and while I used to keep a separate computer for my personal stuff, now that I work from home, I just use the one)

[foolscap001.livejournal.com]

Hand it the "URL" of "about:plugins" and check what it thinks it should do with them. If it doesn't say it hands them to something reasonable, you may have to (re)install the current Acrobat reader.