On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:24:12 -0400, Michael Marsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote: 

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:23 AM, Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Maybe because of this but mostly because of several other irritations,
> > the latest of which was with .pdf files causing occasional segfaults, I
> > purged Iceweasel 3 and replaced it with Iceweasel 2.0.0.16 (and my,
> > fortunately, backed up pre-IW3 ~/.mozilla directory).
> 
> I've always disabled the internal acroread plugin and let xpdf handle
> pdf files for me.  It's faster and doesn't subject my browser to any
> bad pdf reader behavior.  I also find that the reader plugin makes too
> ineffective use of available screen space.

Thank you Michael.  I have just been experimenting with your suggestion
(although using kpdf rather than xpdf) and it looks like a good idea.

-- 
Bob Cox.  Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.
Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/


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