-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Erickson wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > Thanks for the reply. you're welcome. > When I click on a link to a .pdf file I get a "Unable to open document > Unhandled MIME type: 'application/octet-stream'" and right-click, save link as... ? if that works, you may wish to save all PDFs locally and open them manually. That can be configured in Edit->Preferences->Downloads->View And Edit Actions... you can get it to save all these types of file automatically. > I am very new to mozilla/firefox so we may be talking very elementary > issues here. perhaps. Is this an x86_64 system? I have seen quite a few references to problems like this via google. oh and this looks like it might even be a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186241 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192472 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193582 regards Stuart - -- Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX "Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away." - - Robert Orben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEjY5zamPtx1brPQ4RAhx6AJ4kvQv5d+mYs7f/whGVOc6WqqWlOwCeK0qw eUw7Wp0T+3TNzjGl3q0zDG0= =PWzy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.