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Firefox Quantum does not work well with a PDF open.

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I now have Firefox Quantum on my Mac OS 10. When I open a PDF in Firefox, it will often stop responding. The cursor moves but nothing happens. Eventually, maybe after 3-4 minutes, it will respond.

I now have Firefox Quantum on my Mac OS 10. When I open a PDF in Firefox, it will often stop responding. The cursor moves but nothing happens. Eventually, maybe after 3-4 minutes, it will respond.

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It seems to be the extension Ghostery causing the problem. So now when I want the PDF open I will disable Ghostery.

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Go to the Firefox 3 Bar Menu --> Help ? --> Troubleshooting Information Page and take a look in the Accessibility section if accessibility is set to "true" there. if yes, go to the Firefox 3 Bar Menu --> Options --> Privacy & Security panel and under Permissions check the setting to Prevent Accessibility Services from accessing your browser. Restart Firefox

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It was set to "false" already. Thank you.

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions ("3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.

  • switch to the DEFAULT theme: "3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Appearance
  • do NOT click the "Refresh Firefox" button on the Safe Mode start window
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I restarted Firefox in Safe Mode. This seemed to do the trick, so I started it with the extensions on in order to turn them off one by one. The weird thing is that the problem has not returned. I will continue to monitor it. If the problem recurs, I will try again. Thank you.

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It seems to be the extension Ghostery causing the problem. So now when I want the PDF open I will disable Ghostery.

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I do not have Ghostery. I have Privacy Badger add-on but it is set to disabled on *.office.com domains. Nevertheless when I use outlook.office.com webmail client (seeing that PB add-on icon is greyed-out) I cannot preview any PDF attachment - there is blank 'attachmentlightbox' frame in Firefox Quantum 57 ...