fc5 firefox won't open pdf: Unhandled MIME type: 'application/octet-stream'

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 09 April 2006 08:06, sean wrote:
>antonio montagnani wrote:
>> 2006/4/9, PHD <phd2 at fcomfrench.com>:
>>>On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 23:43 -0400, sean wrote:
>>>>Since upgrading to fc5 firefox won't show pdf docs. I can
>>>>save the doc and open it in acroread, evince, etc.
>>>>
>>>>When firefox tries to to show a pdf file I get an error window:
>>>>
>>>>Unable to open document
>>>>
>>>>Unhandled MIME type: 'application/octet-stream'
>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Maybe you can try Firefox extension PDF Download , which helps a
>>> lot,
>>>
>>>Philippe
>>>
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>>
>> Have you got nppdf plugin installed??
>>
>> --
>> Antonio Montagnani
>> Skype : antoniomontag
>
>I should have been clearer. I'm using amd64, firefox.x86_64.
>
>I do have:
>
>/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so ->
>/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so
>
>But nppdf.so is from acroread.i386. I don't think an i386
>plugin will work with firefox.x86-64. That's why I'm using
>mozplugger.
>
>sean

Its not working here either, on an amd64 turion with the 386 FC5 
installed, FF is 1.5.0.2.  The plugin nppdf.so is installed.

Has there been a fix yet?  This is fairly important as lots of the net 
comes in pdf files.

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