Firefox will not open some pdfs, says file is damaged, in other browsers no problem.

The error message I get when choosing to open a PDF from a web page is; "There is an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired."
I don't have this problem using Safari or PC Browsers.

Tried that but it made no difference whatever

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Hello Kathie,
Sorry for the inconvenience that has caused to you.
Please let me know if you have tried converting any other PDF to word with Reader.
Alos, please sign up at "https://cloud.acrobat.com/" using your Adobe ID credentials. Click on 'ExportPDF' tab and upload the PDF that you want to convert to Word.
Let me know if this converts fine.
Hope to hear from you.
regards,
Anubha

Firefox will not open any pdf files

FF will not open any pdf files with built in viewer or adobe. I have set applications in all different ways with no luck. PDF works with IE.
I have ff 33.1.1 and Win 7 and i have tried all suggestions concerning pdf. I even downloaded ff again, uninstalled oldff, and installed new. no luck. all i get is a pop up stating ...download is in progress, please wait.... but it never loads. started after last update. Is ther a way to delete the last update to firefox?
thanks

Hello,
In order to change the default reader for PDF files (to not open PDF files with Firefox's internal PDF reader), follow these steps:
#Click the menu button [[Image:New Fx Menu]] and click Options (Preferences for Linux and Mac).
#In the Options (Preferences for Linux and Mac) window, select the ''Applications'' panel.
#In the ''Search'' field, type ''PDF''. You should find ''Portable Document Format (PDF)''.
#On the right hand side you should find an ''Action'' column. Use that to select your favorite PDF reader. In order to view PDF files in Firefox, choose ''Preview in Firefox''.
Did this fix your problems? Please report back to us!
Thank you.

Firefox will not open some sites, no error is reported, it just sits forever with the status bar half way.

Firefox can not open some sites but no error is reported
== URL of affected sites ==
http://www.aol.com

yea, that has happenend to me as well.
Well this is what has happenend to me anyway.
I will go to the apple site and enter the discussions forum, and the blue bar in the url box will jsut hang for minutes sometimes. THen the page will finally open as well as the blue bar will show up all the way.
But then i will click on say , the safari forum, and the blue bar will open just alittle, though the page will not, and ill wait anoither 2 minue and it finally open.
is this what they call, "hung up", or "hanging?"
but mine doesnt time out, i get no error message. Just th spinning ball , and sometimes no spinning ball.
lol, whoes post is this?
sorry

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== URL of affected sites ==
http://
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.86 Safari/533.4

I am an ordinary user and use FireFox on a Windows XP pro sp2 OS.
I can open and run FireFox by a variety of methods, and do not need to have any firefox: folders, files, or shortcuts on my Desktop unless I so wish.
I suspect you have a rather none standard installation. The quickest solution may well be to uninstall FireFox ( which you have presumably not been able to use anyway) and reinstall it. I would suggest; at least initially; you just use the standard default installation you are offered.
You will probably find this page of use, the [http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/3.6.13/releasenotes/ Release Notes], it includes links for downloading FireFox, and has advice and information about installing and downloading.
I am sure you will have further questions when you try to install but click on the blue link above and look at that page and then post back again and I am sure someone will try to help you.
I am assuming that you are already on the Internet with a browser such as Internet Explorer, and a broadband connection, or are you trying to install from a CD or something that has a FireFox install file on it. (if so what are you using, and what is the version of firefox)

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When I try to download a pdf file sometimes an error message appears and states can't down load file, Quicktime may need an extension. Other times the page just stays blank - nothing happens.
This happens very frequently. I can open some pdf files in Firefox. The problem appears with downloading.
I have the same software in Safari and Firefox and I do not have this problem with Safari - I can download PDFs in that browser

What I did was to reinstall/upgrade Adobe Reader, then there is an new option showing up in Firefox > options > applications > Portable Document Format(PDF), which is "use adobe acrobat in Firefox". Choose this one, then I managed again to open PDF files with Adobe Reader internally in Firefox.

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I thought this following suggestion to use GIMP to open stubborn PSD files was brilliant:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3306200#3306200
you may also want to try using the DNG converter with your CR2 files:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4923
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Firefox will not open at all, no message , nothing. The other browser (internet explorer) opens fine. Do I delete the old program and reinstall it? It works fine on the other two accounts on this computer.

no other details, I click on foxfire, the hourglass figure
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Hello,
In order to change the default reader for PDF files (to not open PDF files with Firefox's internal PDF reader), follow these steps:
#Click the menu button [[Image:New Fx Menu]] and click Options (Preferences for Linux and Mac).
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#In the ''Search'' field, type ''PDF''. You should find ''Portable Document Format (PDF)''.
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I belong to a yahoo group and we share pdf's back and forth very frequently. I have at this point 3 seperate email addresses that I cannot open their pdf's. Nobody else appears to have any issue with these pdf's. Having said that, these are the only pld's I am haveing trouble with at this time. I have Acrobat Pro, new version of Reader on a Mac Pro with OS x 10.6.8, and also sent them on to my PC and a friend with a Mac Pro. The group does not seem to be having trouble with these emails.
monty

Thanks for the quick reply - The message reads - 'There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired.' As far as I know most if not all of the members use some form of acrobat.
What is interesting is that a member, who I do not have problems reading his PDF's, sent me the same files sent to him from these folks and they opened with no problem.
I have asked all three to send me what their basic setup is, only one has replied to the moment. = IAdober Reader XII, Acrobat Professional 6.0 and O.S Windows XP Professional
monty

When i ran itunes latest update i got a virus from it and now itunes will not open as it says files are missing. i was able to get rid of the virus.

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Whenever I try to load a website beginning with stk.co (e.g. stks.co/q1CqL ) Firefox gives the following error message:
The HTTP header field "Accept" with value "hc/url;*/*" could not be parsed.
The same URL loads easily in Internet Explorer and other browsers.
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Just for documentation, here's what I see in the Fiddler debugging proxy for this shortened URL:
(1) Firefox requests: http://stks.co/q1CqL
GET http://stks.co/q1CqL HTTP/1.1
Host: stks.co
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
DNT: 1
Connection: keep-alive
Response is a 301 redirect with a new address
(2) Firefox requests: http://tinyurl.com/lkef9l2
GET http://tinyurl.com/lkef9l2 HTTP/1.1
Host: tinyurl.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
DNT: 1
Connection: keep-alive
Response is a 301 redirect with a new address
(3) Firefox requests http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2014/12/trading-success-lies-on-other-side-of.html
GET http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2014/12/trading-success-lies-on-other-side-of.html HTTP/1.1
Host: traderfeed.blogspot.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
DNT: 1
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I went to the "Add-ons Manager" in Firefox then to the "Plugins" tab. I then disabled the Adobe Acrobat plugin and all other pdf plugins. This fixed my problems.

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