[ale] OT: Faking Acrobat Plugin Presence

Justin W Elam justin.w.elam at gmail.com
Fri Aug 13 10:15:18 EDT 2010


On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to fake having the Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin
> installed in Firefox or Chromium? I'm trying to use a website (Synovus
> is the guilty party) that checks the DOM object navigator.plugins for
> the presence and version of an Adobe Reader reader entry and dies early
> in the process of assembling a download URL if it doesn't find it.
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/navigator.plugins
>

I did have some problems with Adobe Reader failing on  a box before
while trying to load a website

After installing foxit reader, it seemed to work in the browser window.
Foxit is available on all major OS platforms.

Cheers.

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