How to set Foxit not to open pdf in IE browser window???

[egads]

I just installed Foxit reader 2.3. I'm running WinXp with all the latest service packs and IE 7.

How do I get Foxit NOT to open pdf's in the IE browser when clicking on a pdf in a web link?

I've looked all over the Foxit settings and I can't seem to find out how to do this.

[120sadoma258@gm]

This may not help you as you are using IE 7. However, for firefox I use a plugin called PDF download. When I click on a pdf link a pop box appears giving me the options to download the pdf, open in browser window, or open in external application. Perhaps there is something like this for IE7.

[christina]

Hello egads,

Sorry, there's no plugin for you to do what you are intended right now.

[Alejandro Nova]

Greetings. I'm having serious issues with this bug, unrelated to Web browsing. I don't really know how to fix this, but this is annoying.

1. I need to access an array of documents constantly. I'm a law student, so I've arranged some statutes in electronic format, and I made a Vista toolbar for them (so, if I want an statute, I can press an icon, and I have a drop-down menu with my statute). This toolbar is actually a folder in my hard drive (no Internet browsing, no nothing).

2. With Acrobat Reader, the result was exactly the desired one: statutes opening in the reader, running standalone. As you know, however, Acrobat Reader memory usage is amazingly high.

3. With Foxit Reader, the result is strange: when I click on my statute, an Internet Explorer window opens, with my statute inside. The cost of opening an Explorer window is something I would like to avoid, specially because of:

a) There is an interface diference between standalone Foxit and the plugin. Standalone Foxit has an integrated search bar on top. With the plugin, I have to press Ctrl + F to enable it.

b) There is also a bug: when I try to close the opened Explorer, Foxit remains stucked and running in the background, consuming CPU. After two instances of badly-closed Internet-Explorer-with-a-Foxit-plugin showing my document, my CPU usage skyrocketed to 50%.

This, sirs, is with Foxit Reader 3. So, please, do something about it. Acrobat Reader is a memory hog, but I'll have to return to it, because Foxit has rendered itself unusable because of this combination of misfeatures and bugs.

[christina]

Hello All,

I am glad to let you know, now you can 'set Foxit not to open pdf in IE browser window', simply by going to Edit/References/ Internet -> uncheck Display PDF in browser.


b) There is also a bug: when I try to close the opened Explorer, Foxit remains stucked and running in the background, consuming CPU. After two instances of badly-closed Internet-Explorer-with-a-Foxit-plugin showing my document, my CPU usage skyrocketed to 50%.


Hi Alejandro,
Thanks for your input. About this bug, we need you help to provide us more info to figure it out:
1. Your computer info. Please use this tool to get it: www.foxitsoftware.com/tools/getcomputerinfo.exe
2. Please make an image screenshot of stucked reader window
3. Please make image screenshots of the consumed CPU and the process.

Thanks in advance,.