Problems opening .pdf files from Firefox on Linux boxes

Anybody having trouble with viewing .pdf files within Firefox on a
Linux (FC6) box?

I get three different results from identical PC's:
1) The .pdf doc opens within Firefox (desired result)
2) I get the Open With.../Save To... window
3) Nothing happens. Empty browser. URL conatins full path to .pdf
file.

For all three PC's, in Edit > Prefs > Downloads > Download Actions >
View & Edit Actions, there are no entries.

Am I missing something?
Is there something/somewhere that needs to be set so my users can
consistently view .pdf files from within Firefox?

Thanks,
-Richard Vaughn

At Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:41:26 -0000 Richard Vaughn wrote:

>
> Anybody having trouble with viewing .pdf files within Firefox on a
> Linux (FC6) box?
>
> I get three different results from identical PC's:
> 1) The .pdf doc opens within Firefox (desired result)

This means this system has the acrobat reader plugin installed (properly).

> 2) I get the Open With.../Save To... window

This means this system DOES NOT have the acrobat reader plugin
installed (properly).

> 3) Nothing happens. Empty browser. URL conatins full path to .pdf
> file.

This is strange. It might have a *brokenly* installed acrobat reader
plugin installed (the plugin is failing somehow).

>
> For all three PC's, in Edit > Prefs > Downloads > Download Actions >
> View & Edit Actions, there are no entries.
>
> Am I missing something?
> Is there something/somewhere that needs to be set so my users can
> consistently view .pdf files from within Firefox?

You need the acrobat reader plugin installed properly. I think you need
what Adobe calls the Netscape 6 version of the plugin, but I think at
one point there were two version, depeneding on which version of g++ was
used to build FireFox/Mozilla and/or GLIBC you had installed or
something like that. (No, I don't have the acrobat reader plugin
installed -- my system is configured as case 2 above: I get a download
dialog box (I loathe Adobe acrobat reader's GUI and use the old (non
GTK/Gnome) GhostView viewer).

>
> Thanks,
> -Richard Vaughn
>
>

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In news:28db3$470e73b0$404a99a1$5046-at-news.news-service.com,
Robert Heller wrote:

>> 3) Nothing happens. Empty browser. URL conatins full path to .pdf
>> file.
>
> This is strange. It might have a *brokenly* installed acrobat reader
> plugin installed (the plugin is failing somehow).

Forgive me for responding to you rather than the OP, but @gmail.com is
killfiled due to the spam there from.

In the URL field, typing w/o quotes "aboutlugins" will show what's
installed.

>> Am I missing something?
>> Is there something/somewhere that needs to be set so my users can
>> consistently view .pdf files from within Firefox?

Yes. The OP should please read
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/acr...#install-linux

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Richard Vaughn wrote:

> Anybody having trouble with viewing .pdf files within Firefox on a
> Linux (FC6) box?
>
> I get three different results from identical PC's:
> 1) The .pdf doc opens within Firefox (desired result)
> 2) I get the Open With.../Save To... window
> 3) Nothing happens. Empty browser. URL conatins full path to .pdf
> file.
>
> For all three PC's, in Edit > Prefs > Downloads > Download Actions >
> View & Edit Actions, there are no entries.
>
> Am I missing something?
> Is there something/somewhere that needs to be set so my users can
> consistently view .pdf files from within Firefox?
>
> Thanks,
> -Richard Vaughn


Check and see if you have Dragonegg installed. If so, remove it.

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