can't open pdf documents using evince from firefox

[David Hugh-Jones]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Until recently, I could open pdf files automatically from within firefox using evince. (I had "PDF documents" set up to use "Document Viewer" in Preferences->Applications. However, this has inexplicably changed in the last few days and now, if I try to open a PDF, it saves it instead. Having set PDF documents to "always ask" in preferences->applications, when I click on a link to a pdf file, I am only offered the options to "save" or "cancel".

My release is hardy and my evince version is 2.22.2-0ubuntu.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 23 16:50:58 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-3-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[David Hugh-Jones (davidhughjones)]

No. There's an intermittent bug whereby I can't open *any* documents
from within firefox - I get an error message saying that the "helper
application doesn't exist" - but that's something different, I think.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Since this report have a long time without activity, could you check (if is possible) in latest version included in Karmic if this issue is still happening? Additionally, I tried to reproduce this issue using Ubuntu Karmic (up-to-date) and everything works fine here.
Thanks in advance.

[David Hugh-Jones (davidhughjones)]

It mostly works fine. There's an intermittent bug where certain pdf
files can't be opened, the dialog only offers to save them, but I
don't know how to reproduce it. So close it.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as you described in the last comment. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!