Re: Disabling pdf plugin in Mozilla 1.2.1

From: Tony Gahlinger (tgahling_at_ieee.org)
Date: 09/17/03 

Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 03:17:54 GMT

Because I'm downloading some pdf standards from ITU (3 free standards
per year) and as soon as I hit the download button on their site
my Mozilla in its wisdom decides to display this in pdf format,
meaning I have to view it in situ and lose one of my free downloads.
Grrr!

So, anyone know how to disable the darn thing, say, in the way one
used to be able to in older Netscapes or any other sane piece of
software whose developers haven't been smitten by the Microsoft
philosophy of don't-worry-we'll-make-all-your-assumptions-for-you?

--Tony

Egon Spengler wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:53:37 GMT, Tony Gahlinger <tgahling@ieee.org> wrote:
>
>>I'm sure this is in a faq but I haven't found it yet
>>and would appreciate some help.
>>
>>When I hit a pdf document in browsing I sometimes want
>>to download it and view it locally with Acrobat Reader,
>>not have the Mozilla broswer display it. In Netscape 4.x
>>I'd go to Edit -> Preference -> ..., disable the pdf
>>helper app, and go into a save dialog.
>>
>>How does one do this with the latest Mozilla? I've tried
>>commenting out the pdf lines in pluggerrc but then
>>Mozilla simply complains about 'no plugin found'.
>
>
> Why disable? Simply do right-click, Save Link Target as..." 

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