Why does the Windows 7 desktop theme interfere with PDF's showing inside Firefox and how to fix it?
Windows 7
Firefox 28.0
Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro (my default PDF viewer)
I have the browser set to display PDF's: "Use Adobe Acrobat in Firefox." This works fine for a while, then it stops working. I get a white page instead with a pop-up window: "Adobe Acrobat" in the top left corner, a blue question mark in the message field and an OK button on the lower right corner. Clicking the OK button does nothing. Changing the desktop theme image to "Windows 7 Basic" magically cures the problem. After changing the desktop image back to the personalized image, the PDF's will continue showing for a brief period, then they will stop again until resetting the theme to "Windows 7 Basic" again. Can this problem be cured permanently?
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>
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it.
>
> If you draw a div on your deisgn window 'draw AP div'
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> the
> bottom such as width, height, top, left, z-index
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>
> Now if i load the '3 column hybrid header and footer
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> on
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> that
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>
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> template than drawing a div using the 'draw AP div'
tool.??
>
> It's kinda of like the templates are using pure css
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> a
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