Question: How do I get Firefox to use xpdf as my PDF reader?
Author: Joseph Tam, Joel Feldman (MimeEdit extension)
Date: Feb. 26, 2008
There are various problems associated with Adobe's PDF plugin for
browsers (nppdf.so). Benign problems are the inability to print or produce
printable Postscript files. More serious problems are crashing or an
unwillingness to deal with different document versions.
xpdf is generally more robust. To configure firefox to use xpdf instead of
the Acrobat plugin,
- Let Firefox show you plugins:
- Type "about:config" in the URL window.
- Look for the browser.download.hide_plugins_without_extensions option.
- Right-click over true and toggle this value to false.
- Disable plugin and use xpdf instead:
- Go to the Edit / Preferences / Downloads / View and Edit Actions menu.
- Double-click the application/pdf file type.
- A window will pop up asking how to handle PDF files: select
Open them with this application.
- Another file chooser window will pop up: enter
/usr/local/bin/xpdf into the filename field, then
click Open.
- This will bring you back to the previous window: press OK here.
- This will bring you back to first menu: click Close here.
- You are done: test by going to a clicking onto a PDF link.
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