Re: Firefox pdf plugin suddenly broken

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com>]

On 5/21/05, Pollywog <linux-debian@shadypond.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 21 May 2005 08:50 pm, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> > Hello, all:
> >
> > Suddenly, PDF files are not displaying properly.  I have Acrobat 7.0
> > installed, and nppdf.so is in my /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
> > directory, and about:plugins lists it, but PDF files don't display any
> > more.  If I download and view in acroread, it works fine.  Any ideas
> > what may be amiss?
> 
> I had the same problem and I am not sure what fixed it but I believe it was
> that I had xpdf or some other PDF reader installed.  I removed it and the
> files now display properly in Firefox and in the Konqueror file manager.

Thanks - I purged xpdf-reader and now it seems to be working.  Odd.

Patrick