Disable builtin PDF handling

scuzzman · 03-04-2005, 04:09 AM

I'm having some difficulty finding a setting (at least, I assume it's in here somewhere and I'm just an idiot) . What I wish to do is disable Mozilla's automatic handling of PDF's, and, by default, open them in an external viewer, kpdf specifically.

I was wondering if this was possible, as I see nothing in the config, nor in about:config and googling/search returned nothing useful.

When I try assigning the MIME type in Preferences, it tell me that it can handle this built-in, and will only launch the external viewer when expressly requested to do so by the site. Unfortunately, it cannot handle this natively. The screen just goes black (I can sometimes get the PDF to load by reloading the page several times).

I've posted at Mozillazine, but haven't received a response in 2 weeks (and 4 bumps), I gave up.

bathory · 03-04-2005, 04:16 AM

You can go to:
Helper Applications: File Types
Add application/pdf if it does't exists, or edit it accordingly to use Acrobat Reader (acroread) or whatever pdf reader you prefer.
Regards

scuzzman · 03-04-2005, 04:24 AM

I've tried that, but thanks:

Quote:

When I try assigning the MIME type in Preferences, it tell me that it can handle this built-in, and will only launch the external viewer when expressly requested to do so by the site. Unfortunately, it cannot handle this natively. The screen just goes black (I can sometimes get the PDF to load by reloading the page several times).

bathory · 03-04-2005, 05:17 AM

Take a look at mimeTypes.rdf in your ~/.mozila directory. Mine, using acroread looks like this:

Quote:

<RDF

escription RDF:about="urn:mimetype:externalApplication:application/pdf"
NC

ath="/usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread"
NC

rettyName="acroread" />
</RDF

escription>
...
<RDF:Seq RDF:about="urn:mimetypes:root">
<RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:application/pdf"/>
...
<RDF

escription RDF:about="urn:mimetype:application/pdf"
NC:description=""
NC:fileExtensions="pdf"
NC:value="application/pdf"
NC:editable="true">
<NC:handlerProp RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:handler:application/pdf"/>
</RDF

escription>
...
<RDF

escription RDF:about="urn:mimetype:handler:application/pdf"
NC:alwaysAsk="true"
NC:saveToDisk="false"
NC:useSystemDefault="false"
NC:handleInternal="false">
<NC:externalApplication RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:externalApplication:application/pdf"/>
</RDF

escription>

madluther · 03-04-2005, 07:20 AM

Perhaps your browser is handling .pdfs via plugins, (mine does) looking at about

lugins would be a quick way to find out.

HTH

Mad

scuzzman · 03-04-2005, 08:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by madluther
Perhaps your browser is handling .pdfs via plugins, (mine does) looking at aboutlugins would be a quick way to find out.

HTH

Mad

This did it thanks

I just recompiled mozplugger and changed the pointers to kpdf...
It still tries to handle them internally, but it also launches kpdf... I'll take it

Again, thanks for your help, I knew I could count on LQ!

thegnu · 03-30-2005, 07:46 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by madluther
looking at about

lugins[/B]

Haha! about

lugins. I love it when the smilies take over.