Acroread Problem

[Bevan C. Bennett]

John Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:52:53 -0600
> Fritz Whittington <f.whittington at att.net> wrote: 
>>The problem is, that IF there's a plugin 
>>installed that can handle a file, then Mozilla will happily ignore
>>your attempts to set up a helper app to handle it.  You might even
>>discover that Acroread will work as an external helper app.  But at
>>least then you can have your choice.
> 
> 
> Firefox must be different,then.  I completely deleted nppdf.so from my system and it still opens pdf files in acroread instead of xpdf.

I'll bet it opens them using an external acroread window rather than in 
a plugin, however. nppdf.so is only  related to the acroread plugin, and 
won't have any effect on your choice of helper app, except, as the 
parent notes, that if you have a workign plugin, mozilla/firefox will 
use the plugin no matter what helper app you configure.

Check the settings for application/pdf under the helper application 
preference.