Mozilla mime problem

Haploness · 03-10-2003, 04:01 AM

I am trying to change the mime-types in mozilla (0.9.2.1) that comes
with Redhat7.2. I do ne usal edit/prefs./Nav/HelpApps and add an
application/pdf mime type to acroread (I have installed acroread 5).
Nevertheless mozillaALWAYS tries to open xpdf (I have it installed too)
and it results in a blank page and a xpdf process defunct (if I open xpdf
on the command line it works fine).

Any idea?

Thanks

raven · 03-10-2003, 11:28 AM

upgrade to mozilla 1.3.

make sure, there is no other definition for application/pdf in the helper apps list. you may try to remove all mime types that refer to pdf. the next time, you open a pdf doc form the browser, it should ask you what to do. there you can enter the application you want to work with pdf.

hope this helps

raven

Haploness · 03-11-2003, 01:42 AM

Ty raven, in fact the problem was somehow like that. There was no other
application/pdf definition, but the 'plugger' plug-in. It was taking the definition
for app./pdf. I had to remove the plugger from the plugin-path, restart mozilla,
close it again (after verifying the plugger defs were removed), then modify
manually the /etc/pluggerrc removing the entry for app./pdf and then start
mozilla again and add the entry for app./pdf using acroread. It works fine.

Ty.