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PDF files and Firefox slight annoyance

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rawbinator
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Whenever I have an open PDF file in a tab in Firefox, it renders me unable to scroll using my laptop's touchpad scrolling. When I use it, even after clicking in my active tab, it actually is scrolling the PDF instead of my current tab.

Whenever I have an open PDF file in a tab in Firefox, it renders me unable to scroll using my laptop's touchpad scrolling. When I use it, even after clicking in my active tab, it actually is scrolling the PDF instead of my current tab.

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Hi rawbinator,

Have you checked to see if your PDF add-on is up to date? I'd take a look at View PDF files using Firefox’s built-in viewer. There is a lot of information in there and it lists a couple of different PDF add-ons. I'd try both to see if it is localized to just one.

Hopefully this helps!

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Matt_G
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Hi rawbinator,

Have you checked to see if your PDF add-on is up to date? I'd take a look at View PDF files using Firefox’s built-in viewer. There is a lot of information in there and it lists a couple of different PDF add-ons. I'd try both to see if it is localized to just one.

Hopefully this helps!

rawbinator
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If anyone else has the same problem, I installed the Sumatra program at the link posted by Matt_G and scrolling works fine now.