coverup Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 (edited) I have identical versions of firefox (ver 1.0) installed on two PCs One is running 9.2, another is running 10.1. If I click a link to a PDF file on the 9.2 machine, the window opens asking me whether I want to save the file or open it with acroread. Clicking the same link on 10.1 causes the firefox to hang... I wonder why? Edited June 14, 2005 by coverup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenarcher Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 I'm experiencing the same thing with Mandriva 2005. I'm not sure what's going on with it. zenarcher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 No problem here with 10.2, Try creating a new profile and running firefox from it: firefox -profilemanager Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 Install the PDF download extension in Firefox (Tools -> Extensions) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted June 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2005 Install the PDF download extension in Firefox (Tools -> Extensions) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hold on... How come Firefox works under MDK 9.2 with no special efforts/extensions, and does not work under 10.1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted June 14, 2005 Report Share Posted June 14, 2005 coverup, what you say does make sense about the two versions, but Firefox in each is done with different libraries. Firefox file associations are controlled by gnome, you may want to check in the gnome-control-center. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted June 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2005 (edited) coverup, what you say does make sense about the two versions, but Firefox in each is done with different libraries. Firefox file associations are controlled by gnome, you may want to check in the gnome-control-center. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Things even more interesting than I thought... It turns out that some links to PDF work as expected - a window pops out asking what I want to do, and everything works Ok. And on some other links firefox and mozilla freeze. I tried starting FF from the CLI. First, I see some activitiy in the status bar, then the FF freezes and the following messages appear in the terminal Usage: /usr/bin/acroread [options] [list of files] Options: --display=<DISPLAY> This option specifies the host and display to use. --screen=<SCREEN> X screen to use. Use this options to override the screen part of the DISPLAY environment variable. --sync Make X calls synchronous. This slows down the program considerably. -geometry [<width>x<height>][{+|-}<x offset>{+|-}<y offset>] Size and/or location of the document windows. Note: this option is position dependent, and can be specified multiple times. The geometry specified only affects the list of files following it. -help Prints the common command-line options. -iconic Launches in an iconic state on the desktop. -setenv <var>=<value> Tells the main application to perform the equivalent of C-shell setenv <var> <value>. -tempFile Indicates files listed on the command line are temporary files and should not be put in the recent file list. The document title will be the title in the pdf document, instead of the filename. -tempFileTitle <title> Same as -tempFile, except the title is specified. -toPostScript [options] pdf_file ... [ps_dir] -toPostScript [options] -pairs pdf_file_1 ps_file_1 ... -toPostScript [options] Converts the given pdf_files to PostScript. In the first form, if the last file specified is a directory, then all preceding files will be converted to PostScript and the generated PostScript files will be placed into ps_dir. If a directory is not specified, then the PostScript files will be placed in the same directory as the original file. In the second form, the file list contains pairs, each consisting of a PDF filename and a corresponding PostScript filename. The third form specifies a filter, reading a PDF file from standard input and writing the PostScript file to standard output. Note: When using -toPostScript it must be the first argument passed in on the command line. The following are valid options for the conversion of PDF to PostScript: -binary - emit binary PostScript where possible -start <int> - identify the first page in the document to be converted (default is the first page of the document) -end <int> - identify the last page in the document to be converted (default is the last page of the document) -optimizeForSpeed - emit PostScript such that all fonts are emitted once at the beginning of the document. This results in faster transmission times and smaller PostScript documents but requires more PostScript printer virtual memory. -landscape - rotate the pages to print landscape -reverse - reverse the page order of the output -odd - emit only odd-numbered pages -even - emit only even-numbered pages -commentsOff - don't print comments -annotsOff - don't print annots -level2 - emit Level 2 PostScript (level1 is not supported) -level3 - emit Level 3 PostScript -printerhalftones - use the printer default halftones. -saveVM - download fonts as needed to preserve printer memory -size - Paper size (letter,tabloid,ledger,legal,a3,a4,a5,b4,b5) -scale <int> - scale the pages according to the scale factor (default is 100 percent) -shrink - shrink the pages to fit the page size -expand - expand the pages to fit the page size -size <pagesize> - set the page size. The following page sizes are recognized: letter - letter size paper tabloid - tabloid size paper ledger - ledger size paper legal - legal size paper executive - executive size paper a3 - ISO standard A3 size a4 - ISO standard A4 size a5 - ISO standard A5 size b4 - ISO standard B4 size b5 - ISO standard B5 size wxh - custom size paper where w is the integer width in points and h is the integer height in points -transQuality level - set the transparency flattening level Value from 1-5, where 1 means rasterize everything, 5 means rasterize as little as possible, default is 3. -openInNewWindow The application starts normally without checking if it is already running. -version Print version information and quit. -visual <visual class> [depth=<depth>] -visual id=<visual id> -visual best -visual default Specifies a visual. In the first form, the visual class (specified by either its name or number) with an option depth determine the visual to use. In the second form, the visual id is specified. The prefix 0x must be used for hexadecimal numbers. The third form uses an internal algorithm based on depth and visual class. The fourth form simply uses the default visual. Note that PseudoColor visuals of depth greater than 8, and DirectColor visuals are not supported. Also, when I start FF from the CLI, an error appears LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/rpnp.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/rpnp.so: undefined symbol: __pure_virtual] The version of Mozilla seems to be the only difference between 10.1 install and 9.2 installs... could that be the reason? Edited June 14, 2005 by coverup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted June 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2005 The problem has been solved. It turned out that FF and Mozilla were trying to use the plugin which was part of Acrobat Reader 5 while /usr/bin/acroread was pointing to Adbe Reader 7. As soon as I removed the plugin, everything was back to normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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