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Package: firefox
Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-3
Severity: normal
I prefer to view PDF file using xpdf, so I've set it as my default handler
for application/pdf.
Most of the time when firefox comes across a pdf file, it offers it to me
via xpdf, with the open-file dialog showing "Open with [/usr/bin/xpdf
(default)]". This is what I want it to do. Below the xpdf drop-down entry
are no other entries besides "Other...".
But every so often when I click on a pdf file, instead of offering me xpdf,
the dialog show "Open with [evince (default)]" instead! There is no listing
of xpdf in the drop-down list or any thing else other than "Other...".
The behaviour seems to be random, since I can Cancel the dialog box, click
on the link again and this time "xpdf [default]" will be back again. Because
of this, I don't seem to have any reliable way of reproducing the error. It
happens when it happens, maybe once every two days (every 20 or so pdf
files). Here, I've just clicked on the same link over and over, and evince
came up the 13th time. But trying to repeat it again, I got bored after 30
repetitions of xpdf, with a no show from evince.
It just happened again after 15 or 20 clicks on
http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic.pdf
linked from
http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/index.shtml
(repeated after another 20 or so clicks).
I don't know why firefox sometimes grabs evince like this. The only thing I
can think of is that I think Gnome/nautilus uses evince by default, so maybe
the Gnome settings are somehow leaking over into firefox. In
/etc/mailcap.order I have set xpdf-reader:application/pdf, which I
understamd is the normal way to make xpdf the system default reader.
The bug is more weird than troubling, though it's a bit annoying have to
click cancel and then reclick on the pdf link. I'm marking the bug "normal"
rather than "minor" since maybe it's a symptom of some underlying problem
which might be more serious.
The behaviour has been happening for a long time (since firefox 1.0 or
thereabouts). Since it's still happening in 1.5, I figured it was time to
report it.
Drew
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-rc4
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages firefox depends on:
ii debianutils 2.15.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.3.2-2 generic font configuration library
ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.6-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcairo2 1.0.2-3 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-10 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.13-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libidl0 0.8.5-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii libjpeg62 6b-12 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.4-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxinerama1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System multi-head display
ii libxp6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System printing extension
ii libxrandr2 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii psmisc 22.1-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-10 compression library - runtime
firefox recommends no packages.
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On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 14:17 +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote:
> Please reproduce your bug on an updated version of Iceweasel and confirm it
> still exists, or close it as irrelevant for recent versions.
>
I haven't noticed the pdf handler problem in a while now, and I can't
reproduce it at the moment, so I guess we can assume it got fixed in v2.
Drew
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