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NoScript blocks PDF-XChange Viewer

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NoScript doesn't allow pdf-files to open with the Firefox plugin "PDF-XChange Viewer" but will allow pdf-files to open with Adobe Reader. When I open a pdf-file, PDF-XChange Viewer crashes every time. After that you have to choose "Temporarily allow all this page" to see the pdf-file. And this all takes for ever.
How to solve this? I don't want to use Adobe Reader because it's the security risk.
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Re: NoScript blocks PDF-XChange Viewer

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I'm not sure whether this reader is actually more secure than Adobe Reader X, but however it's working fine for me with NoScript: it gets blocked as expected, and if I click on the placeholder it loads and displays the document as expected, no crash. Tried with this one, http://siestetica.it/download/PNE_Norme_Redazionali.pdf

What do you mean by "crash", exactly?
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Giorgio Maone wrote:I'm not sure whether this reader is actually more secure than Adobe Reader X, but however it's working fine for me with NoScript: it gets blocked as expected, and if I click on the placeholder it loads and displays the document as expected, no crash. Tried with this one, http://siestetica.it/download/PNE_Norme_Redazionali.pdf
What do you mean by "crash", exactly?
Security experts say the highest risks on the internet these days are not updated browsers and the Adobe Reader.

By crashing I mean a message "The PDF-XChange Viewer plugin has crashed" in the Firefox which I also got with the previous pdf-file. If I choose "Allow scripts globally" I won't get the message.
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Re: NoScript blocks PDF-XChange Viewer

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What version of PDF-XChange Viewer & related Plugin are you using?

If you disable all other extensions except for NoScript & all other plugins except for PDFX, do you still crash?
And if you create a new, clean Profile with only those two?
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