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- Subject: chromium: I get "missing plugin" when opening PDF (mozplugger is there!)
- From: Paolo Saggese <NO.SPAM@lngs.infn.it>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:41:08 +0200
- Message-id: <20110623194108.7249.90834.reportbug@pcsaggese.lngs.infn.it>
Package: chromium
Version: 12.0.742.91~r87961-1
Severity: normal
Hi,
weird problems with PDF and mozplugger.
(actually, I don't know if the problem affects only PDF or also other/all
mozplugger supported formats as well).
mozplugger works just fine with any other browser, *INCLUDING chrome*, of
course if I disable it's "internal" plugin!!! :o
(google-chrome-stable 12.0.742.100-r88853)
With chromium, if mozplugger is enabled, opening a pdf (for instance, links
on "arxiv", like: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0806.2400v1 ) will result in chromium
reporting a "missing plugin" error (if I disable mozplugger, opening the same
URL would results in pdf file download).
I've also tried some mozplugger config tricks that I've found suggested on
the 'net:
### Acrobat Reader
#define(ACROREAD, [repeat swallow(acroread) fill : acroread -openInNewWindow /a "$fragment" "$file"])
# original, don't work
#define(ACROREAD, [repeat needs_xembed swallow(acroread) fill : acroread -openInNewWindow /a "$fragment" "$file"])
# don't work either
define(ACROREAD, [repeat swallow(acroread) fill needs_xembed : acroread -openInNewWindow /a "$fragment" "$file"])
# don't work either
(and also to let it open the pdf "externally", without "swallow", etc).
Same thing.
Apparently mozplugger is correctly recognized by chromium:
Relevant text from "about:plugins":
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
MozPlugger 1.14.3 handles QuickTime and Windows Media Player Plugin
MozPlugger version 1.14.3, maintained by Louis Bavoil and Peter Leese, a fork of plugger written by Fredrik Hübinette.
For documentation on how to configure mozplugger, check the man page. (type man mozplugger)
Configuration file: /etc/mozpluggerrc
Helper binary: mozplugger-helper
Controller binary: mozplugger-controller
Link launcher binary: mozplugger-linker
Debug file: $TMDIR/mozdebug
MozPlugger: syntax error in mozpluggerrc config file
Name: MozPlugger 1.14.3 handles QuickTime and Windows Media Player Plugin
Description: MozPlugger version 1.14.3, maintained by Louis Bavoil and Peter Leese, a fork of plugger written by Fredrik Hübinette.
For documentation on how to configure mozplugger, check the man page. (type man mozplugger)
Configuration file: /etc/mozpluggerrc
Helper binary: mozplugger-helper
Controller binary: mozplugger-controller
Link launcher binary: mozplugger-linker
Debug file: $TMDIR/mozdebug
MozPlugger: syntax error in mozpluggerrc config file
Version:
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mozplugger.so
[...omissis...]
application/pdf PDF file .pdf
application/x-pdf PDF file .pdf
text/pdf PDF file .pdf
text/x-pdf PDF file .pdf
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
BTW: why does it says: "handles QuickTime and Windows Media Player Plugin"?!
what about all the other countless content types supported by mozplugger???
(nevertheless, same thing on google-chrome).
Eventually, I've been able to view pdf using the "copy libpdf.so from chrome"
trick, but I would definitely prefer to be able to use mozplugger and choose
whatever pdf viewer I like!
Most of all I'd like to open them in a separate viewer window *outside* the
browser, as I do with other browsers (using mozplugger).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (190, 'testing'), (180, 'unstable'), (7, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii chromium-inspector 12.0.742.91~r87961-1 page inspector for the chromium br
ii libasound2 1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.13-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.10.2-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcups2 1.4.4-7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2.1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libevent-1.4-2 1.4.13-stable-1 An asynchronous event notification
ii libexpat1 2.0.1-7 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.4.4-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library
ii libgconf2-4 2.32.3-2 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.4.6-5 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.23.3-3 GDK Pixbuf library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.4-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libjpeg62 6b1-1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.6-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-1d 3.12.9-2~bpo60+1 Network Security Service libraries
ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-6 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libspeex1 1.2~rc1-1 The Speex codec runtime library
ii libstdc++6 4.6.0-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libvpx0 0.9.6-1 VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library
ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.3-1 X11 damaged region extension libra
ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze1 GNOME XML library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-6 XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt
ii libxss1 1:1.2.0-2 X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii libxtst6 2:1.1.0-3 X11 Testing -- Record extension li
ii xdg-utils 1.0.2+cvs20100307-2 desktop integration utilities from
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
chromium recommends no packages.
Versions of packages chromium suggests:
ii chromium-l10n 12.0.742.91~r87961-1 chromium-browser language packages
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