Posts Tagged: firefox

Linux / Ubuntu — 6 Comments
15
Jan 10

View PDF files inline in Firefox on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

When using Firefox on Ubuntu, PDF files are opened in a separate PDF viewer rather than being displayed within the browser window itself.

If you follow this guide, you should be able to get PDF files to open inline, embedded within the Firefox window as in the screenshot below:

firefox-inline-pdf.png

To allow PDF files to be opened inline within the browser window, you need to do the following:

Install Mozplugger and Evince:

sudo apt-get install evince mozplugger

Edit the Mozplugger config file:

gksudo gedit /etc/mozpluggerrc

Find the following block of text (or something very similar):

application/pdf:pdf:PDF file
application/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
text/pdf:pdf:PDF file
text/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
        ACROREAD()
        repeat noisy swallow(kpdf) fill: kpdf "$file"
        repeat noisy swallow(Xpdf) fill: xpdf -g +9000+9000 "$file"
        repeat noisy swallow(okular) fill: okular "$file"
        GV()
        repeat noisy fill exits: evince "$file"

If you prefer to use the Evince PDF viewer replace the above code with the following:

application/pdf:pdf:PDF file
application/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
text/pdf:pdf:PDF file
text/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
	repeat noisy swallow(evince) fill: evince "$file"
	ACROREAD()
	repeat noisy swallow(kpdf) fill: kpdf "$file"
	repeat noisy swallow(Xpdf) fill: xpdf -g +9000+9000 "$file"
	repeat noisy swallow(okular) fill: okular "$file"
	GV()
	repeat noisy fill exits: evince "$file"

Or if you prefer to use the xpdf PDF viewer, you can use the following lines (make sure you if not already installed that you install xpdf using the command sudo apt-get install xpdf):

application/pdf:pdf:PDF file
application/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
text/pdf:pdf:PDF file
text/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
	repeat noisy swallow(Xpdf) fill: xpdf "$file"
	ACROREAD()
	repeat noisy swallow(kpdf) fill: kpdf "$file"
	repeat noisy swallow(okular) fill: okular "$file"
	GV()
	repeat noisy fill exits: xpdf "$file"

Save changes, close all instances of Firefox and Evince/Xpdf and then open firefox and try viewing a PDF file. Everything should now function as you want it to.

The Web / Windows — No Comments
19
Apr 08

Links in Twirl open in Internet Explorer, not in Firefox – A Solution

I recently installed Twirl, an Adobe Air application that helps to keep you up to date with Twitter on my Windows Vista computer. The application is great, however, there was one thing that annoyed me – whenever I clicked on a link, it would always open in Internext Explorer – even though Mozilla Firefox is my default browser.

After googling around for a while, I managed to find the below solution on twhirl’s blog which seemed to do the trick for me:

Go to Start > Default Programs > Set Program Access and Computer Defaults
Expand Custom, select the radio button next to the application you want to set as the system-wide default browser (there will be a few options – such as IE, Safari, Mozilla) and apply the setting.

Hopefully all your links should now open in Firefox and not in IE.