On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 03:50:10PM -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, John Thompson wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:52:53 -0600 > > Fritz Whittington <f.whittington@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > If you really liked Acroread, you can re-install it. As long as you > > > remove the plug-in, Mozilla will honor your choice of an external > > > "helper" app, like xpdf. The problem is, that IF there's a plugin > > > installed that can handle a file, then Mozilla will happily ignore > > > your attempts to set up a helper app to handle it. You might even > > > discover that Acroread will work as an external helper app. But at > > > least then you can have your choice. > > > > Firefox must be different,then. I completely deleted nppdf.so from my > > system and it still opens pdf files in acroread instead of xpdf. > > Do you have mozplugger installed? The difference is: the nppdf.so file is a PLUGIN, which causes Acrobat to (appear to) open up in a browser window. Otherwise it would most likely open as a separate app (unless some other plugin such as mozplugger or plugger is managing the plugin for you). > > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs AT clemson DOT edu > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." ------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) -----------------------------
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