I'm getting acroread instead of evince even though it says it's going to use evince

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Sun Jan 22 17:35:09 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:04:33AM -0500, Johnny wrote:
> On 01/22/2012 10:50 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> >When I click on a .pdf file in a web page Firefox tells me it's loading
> >it and beside the selected 'Open with' button it says "/usr/bin/evince
> >(default)" but if I then click the OK button the file gets opened in
> >acroread.
> >
> >/usr/bin/evince is installed and works perfectly OK.
> >
> >How do I get Firefox to use evince?
> >
> I would just remove acroread in software center then make shore
> evince is installed.

I want acroread though, it sometimes offers facilities that evince
doesn't. 

-- 
Chris Green




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