Re: Acrobat Reader plugin and Firefox on 10.0

From: R S Prigan (NO-SPAM-TO-rprigan_at_insight.rr.com)
Date: 10/17/05 

Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:45:50 GMT

houghi wrote:

> R S Prigan wrote:
>> Has anyone else experienced (fixed!) a problem with Acrobat Reader plugin
>> and Firefox on 10.0? The document does not show in the browser.
>
> Works great here. I see the PDF inline.
> http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf as an example, so we talk
> about the same document (although that should not make a difference)

same result, of course ...
>
> about:plugins (in the place where you normaly enter your URL) gives me:
same

>
> I just installed Adobe 7.0 and that was it. Must again look up how to
> turn of the `phone home` part.
not sure on that

Dave Royal wrote:

> Off /this/topic, but does anyone know how 'enabled' comes to be set?
> Has anyone ever seen it 'disabled'?
>
about:config
browser.download.pluginOverrideTypes = application/pdf
OR edit/preferences/downloads/

Charlie wrote:

> I had a similar problem. I was also having trouble downloading
> and printing from Firefox. I had no problems with Mozilla. At one point, I
> decided to clean up my /tmp directory. After doing so, everything worked
> in Firefox including the Acrobat plugin.
no luck with this ...
I also thought, maybe $HOME/.mozilla/.firefox might have a problem, but
setting up a new user yields same failure to read PDF inline

This must be a Firefox issue ...
so how did houghi get his to work???

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