FC5 mozilla/firefox can't openb .pdf files

[Paul Erickson]

Hi Matthew,

See below.

Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Stuart Sears wrote:
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>> Paul Erickson wrote:
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>>> Hi Stuart,
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>>> Thanks for the reply.
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>>
>> you're welcome.
>>
>>> When I click on a link to a .pdf file I get a "Unable to open document
>>> Unhandled MIME type: 'application/octet-stream'"
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>
> Does this happen for every PDF or just some?

As far as I can tell, it happens to every pdf.

> If you click Edit -> Preferences -> Downloads -> View Actions, is PDF 
> listed? What does it say it will do in that case?
>
The only thing enabled is the "Open download manager"

> Do you have evince or Acrobat Reader plugin installed? Do you have 
> mozplugger installed? Is this a 64-bit or 32-bit system?
>
No, Acrobat is not installed. Neither is mozplugger. This is a 32-bit 
system.

>
>
>>
>> and right-click, save link as... ?
>> if that works, you may wish to save all PDFs locally and open them
>> manually. That can be configured in
>> Edit->Preferences->Downloads->View And Edit Actions...
>>
>> you can get it to save all these types of file automatically.
>>
>>
>>> I am very new to mozilla/firefox so we may be talking very elementary
>>> issues here.
>>
>> perhaps. Is this an x86_64 system? I have seen quite a few references to
>> problems like this via google.
>>
>> oh and this looks like it might even be a bug:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186241
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192472
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193582
>>
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Stuart
>> - --
>> Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX
>> "Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away."
>> - - Robert Orben
>
Thanks for the time and attention.

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