Normally if I click on a link in firefox to a PDF file, I am asked if I want to see it or save it. But recently this has stopped working; if I click on such a file now, nothing happens.
Eg, google just brought up the URL http://www.ma.rhul.ac.uk/~uvah099/Maths/LinkingCosets4.pdf, but when I click on this choice nothing happens - the screen remains blank.
I have no problem retrieving the file with wget.
Has anyone come across this problem?
I'm running Fedora-15, which I keep updated. I see that I updated firefox a couple of days ago, which may be when the problem started: ------------------------------------- Oct 30 12:09:50 Updated: firefox-7.0.1-3.fc15.i686 -------------------------------------
Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 21:38, Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
Normally if I click on a link in firefox to a PDF file, I am asked if I want to see it or save it. But recently this has stopped working; if I click on such a file now, nothing happens.
Eg, google just brought up the URL http://www.ma.rhul.ac.uk/~uvah099/Maths/LinkingCosets4.pdf, but when I click on this choice nothing happens - the screen remains blank.
I have no problem retrieving the file with wget.
Has anyone come across this problem?
I'm running Fedora-15, which I keep updated. I see that I updated firefox a couple of days ago, which may be when the problem started:
Oct 30 12:09:50 Updated: firefox-7.0.1-3.fc15.i686
Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Applications and remove the associations for PDF.
On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 21:46 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 21:38, Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
Normally if I click on a link in firefox to a PDF file, I am asked if I want to see it or save it. But recently this has stopped working; if I click on such a file now, nothing happens.
Eg, google just brought up the URL http://www.ma.rhul.ac.uk/~uvah099/Maths/LinkingCosets4.pdf, but when I click on this choice nothing happens - the screen remains blank.
I have no problem retrieving the file with wget.
Has anyone come across this problem?
I'm running Fedora-15, which I keep updated. I see that I updated firefox a couple of days ago, which may be when the problem started:
Oct 30 12:09:50 Updated: firefox-7.0.1-3.fc15.i686
Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Applications and remove the associations for PDF.
AH, thank you. I've been wondering about this.
The association for PDF was "Always ask", but it always attempted to use mozplugger. The mozplugger option is the one that attempts to open the PDF in a new window in the browser, and that's the one that fails, usually showing a blank page (except the first time I use it after starting a session, sometimes). Choosing evince always opens the PDF in a separate evince app. That's a passable workaround, but having mozplugger work would be kind of nice...
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 01:34, Matthew Saltzman mjs@clemson.edu wrote:
AH, thank you. I've been wondering about this.
The association for PDF was "Always ask", but it always attempted to use mozplugger. The mozplugger option is the one that attempts to open the PDF in a new window in the browser, and that's the one that fails, usually showing a blank page (except the first time I use it after starting a session, sometimes). Choosing evince always opens the PDF in a separate evince app. That's a passable workaround, but having mozplugger work would be kind of nice...
Are you sure that the plugin is not disabled (maybe being disabled sometime after the first is opened)?
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