asp.net forms are not opening in the google chrome

Hi All,

I use applications that generate pdf files with ASPX extensions. All was fine until a couple of weeks ago, when they stopped opening. They still open fine in IE 8. Chrome just opens a blank screen - white at first and black if I click to re-load it. I don't recall installing anything new, but there must be something presenting a conflict.

My OS is Windows 7
I'm on a 64 Bit box
Chrome is 5.0.375.86
Acrobat is Acrobat Pro Extended (9.3.2).

I've looked around and found several other people with the same problem. I tried their suggestions with no success. These include:

1. Uninstall / Reinstall Chrome
2. Uninstall / Reinstall Acrobat
3. Resizing windows
4. Setting the preferences in Acrobat to open web pages in the browser and trying again setting it not to open in the browser (neither worked).
5. Making sure that there are no duplicate Acrobat programs installed

I don't have any download managers installed.

From what I've read, Google seems to be aware of this problem but doesn't offer any solutions. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

An .aspx file is a Microsoft Active Server Page file. It is kind of like a Perl or PHP file, in the sense that it is a computer program which runs on a Web server.

Many ASP programmers make a relatively common programming mistake when they write programs designed to dowwnload files. The most common form of this programming mistake causes the downloaded file to have thew wrong filename; it has the filename of the program that did the downloading.

Let's say I am a programmer and I have a Web site. I write an ASP script to download files; it lives on my Web server and I name it "downloader.aspx". If I do not correctly handle the name of the downloaded file, then every file you download from my Web site will be named "downloader.aspx"--so if you download "pricelist.pdf," it will be a PDF, but it will be named "downloader.aspx" on your hard disk.

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Sundaram Subramanian9y ago
An .aspx file is a Microsoft Active Server Page file. It is kind of like a Perl or PHP file, in the sense that it is a computer program which runs on a Web server.

Many ASP programmers make a relatively common programming mistake when they write programs designed to dowwnload files. The most common form of this programming mistake causes the downloaded file to have thew wrong filename; it has the filename of the program that did the downloading.

Let's say I am a programmer and I have a Web site. I write an ASP script to download files; it lives on my Web server and I name it "downloader.aspx". If I do not correctly handle the name of the downloaded file, then every file you download from my Web site will be named "downloader.aspx"--so if you download "pricelist.pdf," it will be a PDF, but it will be named "downloader.aspx" on your hard disk.
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