Firefox not opening external applications

[Bruno Bigras]

maybe you could try the Firefox package with KDE integration from
https://launchpad.net/~debfx/+archive/firefox-kde

I think you need to install "firefox-3.5-kde" to make it works.

2009/11/15 Paul Lemmons <paul at lemmons.name>:
> Ok, I have given up on waiting for the mozilla-acroread plugin to surface
> and I need to be able to open PDFs with FireFox. So I went into FF
> preferences->applications PDF's and changed the program to Okular. Now I see
> the download box appear and the file get downloaded but the application
> never starts. I have tried a number of different programs for PDFs and the
> result is the same: it downloads but app does not start. I tried a number of
> other file types that open in external programs and they have the same
> issue.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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