FC5 mozilla/firefox can't openb .pdf files
Bob Chiodini
rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Tue Jun 13 16:31:42 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 16:55 +0100, Stuart Sears wrote:
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> Paul Erickson wrote:
> > Hi Stuart,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply.
>
> 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'"
>
> 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
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And https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190858
Bob...
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