A simple thing you can do for your own security [pb]

[cmat]

I promise this'll just take you a sec:
"Adobe has recently announced a pair of critical vulnerabilities in all supported versions of Adobe Acrobat ... This isn't the first time and we worry that it will not be the last. It's easy to disable JavaScript, and doing so doesn't affect core functionality, so we strongly recommend that you do so. Here's

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[cathyr19355]

What "categories" list?

When I click on "edit" from the Firefox menu bar and select "preferences" I get a window with six tabs, labeled "Main," "Tabs", "Content", "Applications", "Privacy", "Security", and "Advanced."

The closest one to "categories" is "Content". When I select the "Content" tab I get four boxes to check or uncheck: "Block pop-up windows"; "Load images automatically"; "Enable JavaScript"; and "Enable Java". "Enable Java" has no other modifiers. "Enable JavaScript" has an "Advanced" button which gives you five other boxes to choose to check or not:

"Move or resize existing windows"
"Raise or lower windows"
"Disable or replace context menus"
"Hide the status bar"
"Change status bar text"

I only have the first and third of these checked right now.

The thing is, unchecking "Enable JavaScript" appears to turn off JavaScript for *all* purposes, not just for running scripts in PDFs. Advice? Comment? Educate me please?

[cmat]

You're doing it in Firefox, which isn't what you want   this is something in Acrobat itself. So launch acrobat reader (probably by typing "acroread" on the command line) and try again? I will make that clearer in the post as well.

[cathyr19355]

That does help; thanks. (Though I often use KGhostview to read/print PDFs.)

[cmat]

I promise this'll just take you a sec

Also, thank you for testing my instructions, and sorry about that. :-/

[roseandsigil]

...Acrobat can run Javascript?! My god.

[cmat]

Not only can, but by default does. *sigh*