# getURL(pdf) won't launch in Firefox?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/geturl-pdf-wont-launch-in-firefox/121281>\
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**Created:** [September 1, 2004, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/geturl-pdf-wont-launch-in-firefox/121281 "2004-09-01T17:14:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![lunatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@lunatic](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lunatic)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/geturl-pdf-wont-launch-in-firefox/121281/1 "2004-09-01T17:14:01Z")

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Okay this is odd. I have built a document catalog in Flash MX that launches pdf files from a button click using getURL (because the fscommand thing for launching acrobat reader never worked for me ☹ ). Anyway, it works great if the user has IE as their default browswer 😜 but I use Firefox (joy!) and have convinced others at work to use Firefox (double joy!) BUT the pdfs will NOT open up in Firefox! 😱 Instead I get something weird - a double tabbed window. The first tab just stays blank and says “untitled”. The second tab launches a NATO webpage? ([http://www.nato.int/science/calendar/calendar.htm](http://www.nato.int/science/calendar/calendar.htm))

I mean, what the heck? :h:

I am hoping some genius out there who loves Firefox will tell me that it is as simple as inserting a line of code in my header somewhere. By the way, this whole project is launched as an exe so there is no html page associated with it. Hope that’s not a problem . . .

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