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5. April 2010, 16:38:00

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Ctrl-W or Ctrl-F4 while in pdf closes Opera 10.51

Anyone else experience this: when in a pdf opened in Opera (Adobe Reader plugin), selecting either Ctrl-W or Ctrl-F4 to close the tab closes Opera.
http://www-keeler.ch.cam.ac.uk/lectures/Irvine/chapter1.pdf

I have this situation on two different computers.
- both running XP Pro SP3
- one is new Dell something (supplied by my work)
- one is 3 yr old HP notebook

Thanks
Roy Jensen

5. April 2010, 16:44:10

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Are you sure you're using the Adobe Reader plugin and not the Adobe Acrobat plugin? See this thread

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5. April 2010, 18:08:26

rjensen

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It is the plugin that installs with Acrobat Reader 9.2.0.

I should mention that i didn't have this problem with the previous version of Opera. (Not sure exactly which version that was.)
A third computer has the same problem (Acer Aspire One).

This also isn't pdf specific. I regularly use Ctrl-W or Ctrl-F4 to close tabs. This function works fine on regular websites, but any pdf that I happen to be in -- have clicked on the pdf so that I can use the cursor keys to scroll -- crashes Opera when Ctrl-W or Ctrl-F4 are used.
Another pdf for your convenience: http://www.varianinc.com/image/vimage/docs/products/nmr/shared/Varian_400MR.pdf

Roy Jensen

5. April 2010, 21:48:26 (edited)

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I now remember this came up before. I don't think Opera is crashing. The thread I linked to is a different issue that doesn't affect Adobe Reader, but only Adobe Acrobat.

Using the PDF-XChange plugin solves the problem — it just beeps if you try to close the tab with focus on the plugin. If I use the Adobe Reader 9.3.1 plugin Opera closes here too, whether with a local PDF file or one downloaded from a link.

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5. April 2010, 19:00:34

Pesala

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I found the earlier thread and did some more testing.

Ctrl W works OK in Opera 10.1 using the Adobe Reader plugin, but it takes two attempts, after the first attempt a blank tab remains. Reloading the page after using Ctrl W to get the blank tab crashes Opera 10.1. Ctrl W closes the blank tab.

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5. April 2010, 22:31:17

rjensen

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Merci beaucoup.

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