Help! Conkeror hanging on pdf files

[Silvio Levy-3]

Hello wise folks,

[short version: how can I control what Conkeror does when I tell it to
follow a link that serves a pdf file.]

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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[Silvio Levy-3]

> Hit 'ns' and then select the pdf link. That's how you save a link to disk.

Thanks Rankumar but this doesn't work for hidden "links" (i.e.,
instead of an href, the link is calls a php script or whatever that
serves the file, like this: <div class="link"
onclick="document.location='../editorial/uploads/jomms/accepted/071108-Shindo/071108-Shindo-v3.pdf'">)

In this situation. "ns" (and also "c" or "s" or anything other than
"f") gives "Error: invalid load-spec".  Typing "f" would work (and did
work before), so one fix would be change the file-associations so
"following" a PDF link offers the option of saving, instead of trying
to display in the browser.

Silvio


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