Re: Why is Firefox calling gimp instead of xpdf?
On 11 Mar 2009, Bob Cox wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 09:35:54 +0000, Anthony Campbell (ac@acampbell.org.uk) wrote:
>
> > On my laptop I have set Preferences to use xpdf to read pdf files, but
> > for some reason it keeps calling gimp instead. Is there any way to make
> > it do what I want?
>
> If you are using KDE, then I would take a look at the file association
> settings in the control centre. Presumably there is a Gnome equivalent.
>
> For me, Firefox/Iceweasel obeys these settings; I have no entry at all
> for pdf in my Iceweasel preferences.
>
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I don't use either KDE or Gnome. I'll try removing Gimp temporarily and
see what happens.
Anthony
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