Bugzilla – Bug 1013007
Evince Plugin for Firefox Freezes
Last modified: 2017-10-01 19:52:15 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0 Build Identifier: Evince browser plugin hangs Firefox when displaying embedded PDF Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. When I uninstall --type application Evince and go to a website with an embedded PDF (e.g.: office 365 email attachment and click on 'view') the frame says 'you need a plugin to view this'. 2. I install the --type application Evince (which includes the plugin for firefox) and repeat Actual Results: the browser just hangs. I shade the window, and unshade it, and then it becomes completely grey. I must either 'Terminate' the application or find the pid and kill it. Expected Results: display the embedded PDF I am in a KDE environment. Using stock Evince, and firefox: MozillaFirefox-50.0-1.1.x86_64 evince-3.22.1-1.1.x86_64 32-bit Adobe reader plugin (version 9) works just fine.
Probably the same as bug#901006... Unfortunately the GNOME team never removed evince-browser-plugin in Factory/Tumbleweed even they decided to do so for 13.2 (so it is back in 42.2 too), and neither the GNOME/GTK, evince, nor Mozilla upstream developers care about that (everybody say "it's not our fault" AIUI).
PS, you should be able to uninstall the package evince-browser-plugin (and keep evince itself) to "fix" your problem.
And for the record, this is the evince changelog entry for 13.2: Thu Dec 11 15:27:47 UTC 2014 - badshah400@gmail.com - Workaround bgo#738370: Disable the browser-plugin and evince-browser-plugin package, make main package obsolete the browser-plugin package to avoid update issues. The mentioned GNOME bug report is here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738270 Apparently the bug number in the change log is slightly wrong, but the correct one has been mentioned here: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=906687#c44 ;-)
OK thanks for the info. I suppose this can be closed with upstream's wontfix. Slightly OT but is there a KDE version (Okular?) plugin for browsers. I see on the web that there are other PDF readers, but specifically browser plugins, I cannot find.
(In reply to Emr Rec from comment #4) > OK thanks for the info. I suppose this can be closed with upstream's > wontfix. Actually, it should get fixed on Firefox's side too (in v52 non-ESR), because they apparently have removed support for netscape plugins completely (except flash-player): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269807 > Slightly OT but is there a KDE version (Okular?) plugin for > browsers. I see on the web that there are other PDF readers, but > specifically browser plugins, I cannot find. There was (is) a plugin to use KDE's KParts (allows certain KDE applications, including okular, being embedded in other applications), but I don't know the current state of this. (and it probably will not work in future Firefox versions anyway). Firefox should have an internal PDF viewer though, see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/view-pdf-files-firefox . (this also mentions available plugins: Adobe Acrobat, MozPlugger, or KParts plugin, and that support for NPAPI plugins will be dropped in March 2017)
Firefox >= 52 removed support for NPAPI plugins by default. They are highly discouraged and atm just Flash is officially still supported. So not sure if there is a point in keeping this open?