# getURL(pdf) won't launch in Firefox? **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [September 1, 2004, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/geturl-pdf-wont-launch-in-firefox/62923 "2004-09-01T17:14:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**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/62923/1 "2004-09-01T17:14:01Z")
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 . . . :hr: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/geturl-pdf-wont-launch-in-firefox/62923/2 "2004-09-01T23:50:20Z")
Can you normally open a pdf in firefox without any trouble? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/geturl-pdf-wont-launch-in-firefox/62923/3 "2004-09-01T23:53:11Z")
Yes 🙂