On Tue, December 9, 2008 3:49 pm, William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 15:01 -0500, Bo Lynch wrote: >> I'm having an issue with workstation opening pdf's with firefox. I have >> the adobe plugin installed and enabled in firefox but firefox will only >> let me save the file. Under applications I have tried using the doc >> reader >> and adobe to associate pdf's with firefox with no luck. I am running >> firefox 3.0.4. Any help would be greatly appreciated. >> Thank you > > I've just been mucking about with this stuff. If you'll provide more > information, maybe I can help. Many folks ignore requests with no > substantive information because it wasts so much time trying to get the > information needed. > > For me, if you use rpm -q<splat whatever else you want> to list the > adobe plugin file installed, that would be a start. > > Under ~/.mozilla are one or more files named pluginreg.dat. Their > contents would be useful. The find command will help you locate them. If > you have multiple "default" directories there, which one is your active > one? Just get information from that one. > > If you have edited your preferences, list the settings for those that > may be related: what do you have for download actions, under > tools->add-ons->plugins tab, what is shown their. Anything else that may > be useful and related. > > -- > Bill > rpm -q firefox firefox-3.0.4-1.el5.centos [root at localhost ~]# acroread -v 8.1.3 The output of pluginreg.dat. This file was located in ~/.mozilla/firefox/ssehte9e.default Is this normal? Generated File. Do not edit. [HEADER] Version:0.09:$ [PLUGINS] /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/npwrapper.so:$ :$ 1216305953000:1:1:$ <a href="http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/">nspluginwrapper</a> is a cross-platform NPAPI plugin viewer, in particular for linux/i386 plugins.<br>This is <b>beta</b> software available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.<br>:$ NPAPI Plugins Wrapper 0.9.91.5:$ 1 0:unknown/mime-type:Do not open:none:$ /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so:$ :$ 1226956491000:1:1:$ Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12:$ Shockwave Flash:$ 2 0:application/x-shockwave-flash:Shockwave Flash:swf:$ 1:application/futuresplash:FutureSplash Player:spl:$ /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_32_32.nppdf.so:$ :$ 1227025018000:1:1:$ The Adobe Reader plugin is used to enable viewing of PDF and FDF files from within the browser.:$ Adobe Reader 8.0:$ 5 0:application/pdf:Portable Document Format:pdf:$ 1:application/vnd.fdf:Acrobat Forms Data Format:fdf:$ 2:application/vnd.adobe.xfdf:XML Version of Acrobat Forms Data Format:xfdf:$ 3:application/vnd.adobe.xdp+xml:Acrobat XML Data Package:xdp:$ 4:application/vnd.adobe.xfd+xml:Adobe FormFlow99 Data File:xfd:$ Thanks for any help. Bo Lynch