How to make adobe default pdf reader in firefox/thunderbird
Ping-Wu Zhang
pwzhangz at gmail.com
Thu Aug 11 22:42:09 UTC 2005
On 8/11/05, oldman <talbotscott at cox.net> wrote:
> Also what is your "mime type" set for? (right click on any PDF file
> you have on your machine and select properties - select the Open With
> tab. if Adobe does not show up there, click on the "ADD" button. If
> Adobe is not in your menus you will need to select the "use custom
> command" to open up the file requester, find the acroread program and
> select open. Then make this your default in the properties window.
>
> That should do it. Good Luck
>
> Scott
Thanks. That does the trick. Now my Thunderbird also defaults to
acroread. However, the "Do this automatically . . ." box is still
greyed out. Still would like to know how to solve this problem.
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