Help! Conkeror hanging on pdf files

[Silvio Levy-3]

Hello wise folks,

Two weeks ago I installed Acrobat Reader 9 on my ubuntu laptop.  
(I had version 7 before).  After that, whenever I clicked on a link to a
pdf file in conkeror, I would usually get a blank buffer, and conkeror
would crash if I tried to kill the buffer.

Then I tried to teach Conkeror not to open pdf files with Acrobat
Reader.  Googling "conkeror file associations" revealed nothing.
Using nautilus to change the default software for opening pdf files
had no effect on conkeror.

Finally I removed every instance of nppdf.so from the disk, hoping that
by not finding a plugin, conkeror would offer to save the file.  

Now instead of a blank screen, conkeror hangs.  I have to use
kill -9.  

Upgrading to the current conkeror from git ("conkeror.mozdev.org
conkeror 0.9") didn't help.  Putting nppdf.so back in
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (the value of MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH) didn't help.

I'd be very thankful if something could suggest what I'm doing wrong.

Silvio


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[John J. Foerch]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 01:25:10AM -0700, Silvio Levy wrote:

>
> Hello wise folks,
>
> Two weeks ago I installed Acrobat Reader 9 on my ubuntu laptop.  
> (I had version 7 before).  After that, whenever I clicked on a link to a
> pdf file in conkeror, I would usually get a blank buffer, and conkeror
> would crash if I tried to kill the buffer.
>
> Then I tried to teach Conkeror not to open pdf files with Acrobat
> Reader.  Googling "conkeror file associations" revealed nothing.
> Using nautilus to change the default software for opening pdf files
> had no effect on conkeror.
>
> Finally I removed every instance of nppdf.so from the disk, hoping that
> by not finding a plugin, conkeror would offer to save the file.  
>
> Now instead of a blank screen, conkeror hangs.  I have to use
> kill -9.  
>
> Upgrading to the current conkeror from git ("conkeror.mozdev.org
> conkeror 0.9") didn't help.  Putting nppdf.so back in
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (the value of MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH) didn't help.
>
> I'd be very thankful if something could suggest what I'm doing wrong.

Hi Silvio,

  Conkeror has its own registry of mime-type handlers, separate from
those defined at the OS level.  See http://conkeror.org/MimeTypeHandlers
for details.  Also http://conkeror.org/UserVariables.

--
John Foerch
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