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robertb79899028
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October 2, 2019
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Adobe Acrobat Plug-in Causing Internet Explorer to freeze

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We have an Adobe plug in that allows our employees to view PDF's in the browser.  Recently they have been experiencing a consistent issue of the PDF freezing in a gray screen and will not even start a loading bar. This causes all of Internet Explorer to freeze and have to task kill and start over.  This is a critical problem for us right now as viewing PDF's in browser is part of many employee's daily routines, and downloading the PDF everytime is not a solution, as we have code that populates certain fields but only when it's opened in browser.

I have looked at other threads on this site and it appears I'm not the only one with this problem, and that there is also no solution available.

Like I said earlier this is a critical fault in our employees day to day and some update or solution would be greatly appreciated.

 

Internet Explorer Version: 11.356.18362.0

Adobe Version: 2019.012.20040

Adobe PDF Reader add-on Version: 19.10.20064.310990

 

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    ls_rbls
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    October 11, 2019

    So I researched a little more and since you've mentioned that you are using windows 10 there isactually a feature that allows you to emulate another environent with MS Edge.. other browsers may allow you to access a similar developer mode. 

     

    For the purpose of this thread MS Edge will do when you go here: https://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/

     

    In that page , right-cllikc on any area of the page and select Inspect element and follow the slides You can also press the "F12" key to invoke the developer mode window. .  You can change the user string agent of your browser here.

     

     

     

     

     

    ls_rbls
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    ls_rblsCommunity Expert
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    October 2, 2019

    If you have not done so yet, you should also post this question in a Microsoft support forum.

     

    I dont know whicb operating system you are using, which in the case of Windows 10, a lot of users have voiced that similar issues appear after an update took place in their machines.

     

    Also which Adobe Acrobat are you using, Reader DC or Acrobat Pro DC.

     

    Be aware that Microsoft announced end of support for Internet Explorer. Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling a 32bit version of Internet explorer instead of the 64 bit IE? Then retry the plugin .

     

    Also, just for testing purpose, have you updated the java runtime environment in those machines?

     

    And lastly, can you check with another browser if the internet access plugin would work with Firefox, Chrome, Opera?

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    robertb79899028Author
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    October 2, 2019
    Thank you for the reply
    ls_rbls
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    ls_rblsCommunity Expert
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    October 3, 2019
    Do you have an Agent Switcher plug-in you would suggest? None of the one's I found allow me to replicate an older version of Windows.
    In that case I would definitely recommend downloading and installingOpera browser or see if you can find a windows veraion of Konqueror browser. They are both highly flexible in this area as they will allow you , not only, to change the user agent of your browser but also the type of operating system and appear as other. I forgot to clarify that the agent swithching can be accomplish manually in chrome and firefox, but that just handles the browser user agent part. For this purpose i think you should be good with opera browser.
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