Re: Iceweasel: Can't find helper application
- From: Thorny <thorntreehome@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:41:51 -0700
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:19:53 +1030, Matthew Smith posted:
Hi Folks
Don't know if this is a Debian issue or a Firefox issue - having only just
switched from Gentoo+FF2 to Debian+FF3/Iceweasel.
* Try to follow a link to a PDF document. * Get a message that the helper
application (xpdf) can't be found. * Go to Preferences/Applications and
change the 3 instances of PDF to invoke specifically /usr/bin/xpdf (in
case there was an issue with the path.)
* Issue persists.
I have a default installation of Iceweasel 3.0.6 on Lenny and when I go to
Preferences-->Applications I only see one instance of Portable Document
Format. For it there is a drop down list to choose other than the default
"Always ask" which also includes navigation for "Use other ..." choices.
This doesn't sound like what you are describing (3 instead of the 1 I
see). You didn't mention anything about which version of either Iceweasel
or the OS, don't know if it might be related.
I have seem issues before with Firefox and what to do with various MIME
types; in FF2, I'm pretty sure that one could delete entries in
Applications which would force an 'ask' dialogue next time that MIME type
was encountered, generally fixing the issue. It appears that we no longer
have that luxury.
Hummm. Could it be that you tried to copy some configuration files
over from one of your other installations to save what you had already
done or something like that? Something that might not be compatible?
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