firefox not using acroread

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2012/12/16 rikona <rikona at sonic.net>:
> Hello Nils,
>
> Saturday, December 15, 2012, 3:13:23 AM, Nils wrote:
>
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> 10.04.4 32 bit here.
>
>>> How can I convince firefox to use acroread?
>
>> Install the adobe reader from the Canonical repository, if you haven't
>> done it already. Then edit the firefox preferences section
>> "Applications". For the content type "PDF-Document" select the action
>> "Use Adobe reader 9 (default)".
>
>>> Or if the reader has too
>>> many security flaws, can this one be switched to one that actually
>>> works?
>
>> You could try Okular.
>
> In 10.04 I use 'Document Viewer' - works pretty well.


I have always preferred Evince (”Document Viewer”) over Acrobat
Reader. One of the reasons is that you can fill in a form and save it
with Evince, which is something that I need to do sometimes. But that
has, of course, nothing to do with this…


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ


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