Important Notice: We're experiencing email notification issues. If you've posted a question in the community forums recently, please check your profile manually for responses while we're working to fix this.

On Monday the 3rd of March, around 5pm UTC (9am PT) users may experience a brief period of downtime while one of our underlying services is under maintenance.

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

javascript openDoc not working. All I get is a new window with about:blank in the address bar.

Hattrix
Hattrix
more options

I have my resume posted in a website applitrack.com. I can upload PDFs. The PDF file shows up as a link and when I mouse over the link, the status bar shows javascript:openDoc('file', '18292'). When I click the link, I get a new window and "about:blank" in the address bar. This website works fine in IE (the PDF gets launched when I click the file link.

I tried disabling and uninstalling AdBlock Plus and that didn't help.

I have my resume posted in a website applitrack.com. I can upload PDFs. The PDF file shows up as a link and when I mouse over the link, the status bar shows javascript:openDoc('file', '18292'). When I click the link, I get a new window and "about:blank" in the address bar. This website works fine in IE (the PDF gets launched when I click the file link. I tried disabling and uninstalling AdBlock Plus and that didn't help.

Modified by Hattrix

All Replies (1)

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

There have been reports of the PDF plugin not working correctly with Firefox 5.

It may help to change the setting for PDFs here:

orange Firefox button or Tools menu > Options > Applications

I think some people have had luck resetting their download actions as described in this article: http://kb.mozillazine.org/File_types_and_download_actions#Resetting_download_actions