firefox opens pdf documents with evince even though acroread is selected

Bug #272007 reported by Torben Knudsen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

firefox opens pdf documents with evince even though acroread is selected.
firefox 3.0b5, Evince Document Viewer 2.22.1.1,

tk@tk-laptop:~$ uname -a
Linux tk-laptop 2.6.24-16-386 #1 Thu Apr 10 12:50:06 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

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Andreas Moog (ampelbein) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you try with firefox 3.0.1 from hardy-security / hardy-updates? I can't reproduce the issue here.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Torben Knudsen (tk-es) wrote :

I am using manual updating. I have just updated. As you can see from the attached screen shots I still have the problem

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Torben Knudsen (tk-es) wrote :

There was one more screen shot to the history.

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest firefox version? Thanks in advance.

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Torben Knudsen (tk-es) wrote :

Now everything is working okay.
I have (maybe) the same firefox
Version 3.0.5 Mozilla firefox for ubuntu canonical - 1.0
but I have updated to ubuntu 8.10

tk@tk-laptop:~$ uname -a
Linux tk-laptop 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 21:57:00 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thank you. Therefore closing the bug.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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