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Chrome Version: 34.0.1847.131 URLs (if applicable): chrome:plugins OS version: 10.9.2 Behavior in Safari 3.x/4.x (if applicable): Using Safari 7.0.3, and can see Adobe Reader plugin version 11.0.06 in plugins list dialog. Behavior in Firefox 3.x (if applicable): no Firefox installed. Behavior in Chrome for Windows: can see Adobe PDF plugin listed in chrome://plugins page.
What steps will reproduce the problem? Install Adobe Reader XI on Mac OS X Mavericks with Chrome 34.0.1847.131 installed. Launch Adobe Reader app, and click 'yes' when asking for making it the default PDF reader program. Launch Google Chrome, navigate to chrome://plugins, cannot find Adobe Reader plugin, and can only see the Chrome PDF plugin. (restarting the OS doesn't make any difference. ) What is the expected result?
Can see Adobe Reader from Chrome plugins list. What happens instead? Cannot see Adobe Reader from Chrome plugins list, and if disable Chrome PDF, the PDF files will download. So, no online PDF file can be loaded within Chrome browser with the newly installed Adobe Reader plugin. Background story and why Googlers using Mac OS X should better be able to use Adobe Reader plug-in inside Chrome: Actually, within Google, we Chinese employees need to access Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's website to fill online W8-ben form, currently the whole site (after log-in) is fully based on flash, with our Chrome browser, the pepper flash plugin can work well with the site, but all online embedded PDF forms (like tax-related w8-ben form) cannot be displayed with Chrome PDF plug-in, only Adobe Reader or Acrobat PDF plug-in can load it and let us fill in place and submit directly. Even if downloading and filling the form won't do because there's no where to upload the form. Processing To my knowledge there has.never.
been a version of the Adobe Reader plugin that can be made to function in Mac Chrome. Originally, they used a Safari-specific plugin format. Then they used NPAPI, which is cross-browser, but somehow wrote it in such a way that it depended on specific internal browser details and still only really worked in Safari IIRC (it certainly didn't work in Chrome, and couldn't be made to due to its design) I haven't looked at their latest version, but if it's not in the plugin list one possibility is they released it 64-bit only. Can you run 'file' on the plugin binary in terminal and post the output here?
Processing Status: WontFix Thanks; so the one with NPAPI in the name we're not loading because it's 64-bit-only. Perhaps that plugin is actually cross-browser, in which case it would work once we ship 64-bit Chrome on Mac. Someone could test with a 64-bit Canary and see what happens. I was curious about the other one so I found a machine with it installed. The bundle type is WBPL, not BRPL. That means that despite the.plugin extension, it's a WebKit plugin, not an NPAPI plugin so we (as expected) don't load it. Why they used.plugin instead of.webplugin as the extension, I have no idea.
So this is WONTFIX; one plugin is 64-bit only, and the other isn't designed to work with browsers not using Apple's WebKit, so neither is expected to load on stable channel. Once we ship 64-bit, we can look again if the NPAPI plugin isn't working.