Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-3 Severity: normal I prefer to view PDF file using xpdf, so I've set it as my default handler for application/pdf.
Most of the time when firefox comes across a pdf file, it offers it to me via xpdf, with the open-file dialog showing "Open with [/usr/bin/xpdf (default)]". This is what I want it to do. Below the xpdf drop-down entry are no other entries besides "Other...". But every so often when I click on a pdf file, instead of offering me xpdf, the dialog show "Open with [evince (default)]" instead! There is no listing of xpdf in the drop-down list or any thing else other than "Other...". The behaviour seems to be random, since I can Cancel the dialog box, click on the link again and this time "xpdf [default]" will be back again. Because of this, I don't seem to have any reliable way of reproducing the error. It happens when it happens, maybe once every two days (every 20 or so pdf files). Here, I've just clicked on the same link over and over, and evince came up the 13th time. But trying to repeat it again, I got bored after 30 repetitions of xpdf, with a no show from evince. It just happened again after 15 or 20 clicks on http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic.pdf linked from http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/index.shtml (repeated after another 20 or so clicks). I don't know why firefox sometimes grabs evince like this. The only thing I can think of is that I think Gnome/nautilus uses evince by default, so maybe the Gnome settings are somehow leaking over into firefox. In /etc/mailcap.order I have set xpdf-reader:application/pdf, which I understamd is the normal way to make xpdf the system default reader. The bug is more weird than troubling, though it's a bit annoying have to click cancel and then reclick on the pdf link. I'm marking the bug "normal" rather than "minor" since maybe it's a symptom of some underlying problem which might be more serious. The behaviour has been happening for a long time (since firefox 1.0 or thereabouts). Since it's still happening in 1.5, I figured it was time to report it. Drew -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-rc4 Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages firefox depends on: ii debianutils 2.15.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii fontconfig 2.3.2-2 generic font configuration library ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.6-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcairo2 1.0.2-3 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-10 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.13-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libidl0 0.8.5-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file ii libjpeg62 6b-12 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.4-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxi6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Input extension li ii libxinerama1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System multi-head display ii libxp6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System printing extension ii libxrandr2 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Resize, Rotate and ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii psmisc 22.1-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-10 compression library - runtime firefox recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
