Hi All- I'm evidently experiencing a bug in the (masked) acroread-7.0 package. I'd like to help out and find a solution, but I'm not sure where to start...
The bug is with acroread's interaction with mozilla-firefox. Before installing acroread, Firefox would download and view (in gpdf) any PDF file that was clicked from a hyperlink in a browser window. After installing acroread, Firefox worked (including launching acroread instead of gpdf) until all windows were closed. After starting a new Firefox session, Firefox no longer successfully launched a PDF reader. Regardless of the mimetype settings for "application/pdf" (configured via the Mimetype Editor 0.2 Firefox extension) Firefox persisted in freezing immediately after a PDF hyperlink was clicked. One processor in my dual-processor system was pushed to about 50% consistent load until Firefox was killed, either by Gnome's "force quit" mechanism or an explicit `killall firefox-bin`. Tried re-emerging Firefox with no change in behavior. Behavior returns to normal after `emerge -C acroread`. I'd like to learn more about the process for dealing with things like this. Should this be reported as a bug? Has it already been reported as a bug? If it ends up reported as a bug, how does it get repaired? All of these areas are new to me but I'd like to learn more... I see bug #87679, which is the sole hit when searching bugs.gentoo.org for "ALL firefox acroread" - but this doesn't look like exactly the same problem since I see no mention of freezing. Dave -- [email protected] mailing list
