Aaron Konstam wrote: > I assumed that firefox was currently using Acrobat on the machine that > the OP had and there would be a line for it in the Manage window. If not > then the behavior described above should work but you may have to empty > the firefox caches before it works, Assuming I am the OP: I don't have any problem looking directly at a PDF file - I'm asked if I want to download or view it, and if I view it then xpdf is used. The problem arises when viewing non-PDF files which reference PDF files. Unfortunately I didn't make a note of the files causing the problem - calling on acroread rather than xpdf - and I can't find such an URL now, but if and when I do I shall empty the firefox cache as you suggest, and see if that helps.