PDF viewer will not search

The new Firefox PDF viewer will not correctly search the text of PDF's which have text recognized. I switched the view of the document over to Acrobat and was immediately able to search as required. Can you fix?

Seems to be working for me.
Does this happen with all PDF files?
The latest version of the PDF viewer is available as an extension and does a better job than the 0.6.143 version shipped with Firefox 19 in a lot of cases.
You can find the latest version of the PDF Viewer (pdfjs) extension here:
*PDF Viewer: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/pdfjs/
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode|Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
*Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

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