On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, fred smith wrote: > 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). In fact, mozplugger apps can be (are, in this case) swallowed by the browser window. A swallowed acroread looks pretty much just like the plugin, but it does not require nppdf.so to run. If you don't have acroread at all, but you have mozplugger, then xpdf is swallowed by the browser too, and looks very much like a plugin. In fact, there's a GTK+ Mozilla/Firefox bug where using acroread plugin causes CPU to jump to near 100%, but using mozplugger instead gives the same appearance without the buggy behavior. As another poster pointed out, you can change what app gets loaded (and whether it's swallowed) in /etc/mozpluggerrc. If you didn't have mozplugger at all, helpers would always open in separate windows. If you don't have nppdf.so, you *can't* be running the Acrobat plugin, so if you still see a swallowed acroread app, it must be another plugin loading it. Mozplugger or plugger are the obvious candidates. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
