[clug] some Firefox questions

Eyal Lebedinsky eyal at eyal.emu.id.au
Tue Aug 28 09:33:18 GMT 2007


ben.ellis at familycourt.gov.au wrote:
> Would the pdf action be due to a plugin? About:plugins (IIRC) should list them.

Not sure, the extension 'pdf' is not showing here.

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Eyal Lebedinsky [eyal at eyal.emu.id.au]
> Sent: 28/08/2007 11:31 AM
> To: Mike Carden <mike.carden at gmail.com>
> Cc: CLUG List <linux at lists.samba.org>
> Subject: Re: [clug] some Firefox questions
> 
> Mike Carden wrote:
>>> 1) I want to get the download prompt when I click a link to a non html filetype,
>>>     and never launch an application (I will then configure some application
>>>     helpers myself). For example, pdf files now launch a viewer and I want to
>>>     stop this. My preferences show that no file types are configured.
>> Does this do what you require?
>> Tools -> Options -> Content -> File Types -> Manage -> Change Action
>> -> Save on my computer.
> 
> I did say that no file types are configured, meaning that the Manage panel is
> empty, yet .pdf files launch a viewer.

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Eyal Lebedinsky	(eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)


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