pdf documents (probably other mimetypes too) not opened by chromium-browser

[Alexander Sack]

Binary package hint: chromium-browser

clicking on a .pdf opens a new tab, that tab stays however, empty and the .pdf gets downloaded to the default download location.

Instead chromium should open the pdf in the pdf mime-type handler aka evince.

[Evan Martin (Chromium) (evan-chromium)]

There are a few different bugs in this area:
1) that you can't make downloads open automatically
2) that we don't support Adobe's Reader plugin
3) that we don't support Reader via mozplugger

(Evince doesn't provide a browser plugin, so we're out of luck for using evince for displaying PDFs inline.)

I will link this to the relevant bugs. I believe the third one has been fixed by mozplugger.

[Evan Martin (Chromium) (evan-chromium)]

... I guess I can't link it to two bugs. Well, the other one is
  http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31688

[Mike Carifio (carifio)]

Any recommended workaround? Right now I just use firefox when I want to fetch a pdf.
That's a little cumbersome. But doable.

[Evan Martin (Chromium) (evan-chromium)]

If you click the download button that shows up at the bottom, it should open in your PDF viewer.

[Guilherme de S. Pastore (fatalerror)]

I heard there was a built-in PDF reader... was that just Google Chrome?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package chromium-browser - 37.0.2062.94-0ubuntu0.12.04.1~pkg909

---------------
chromium-browser (37.0.2062.94-0ubuntu0.12.04.1~pkg909) precise-security; urgency=medium

  * Release to stage

chromium-browser (37.0.2062.94-0ubuntu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * Upstream release 37.0.2062.94.
    - CVE-2014-3165: Use-after-free in Blink websockets.
    - CVE-2014-3176, CVE-2014-3177: A combination of bugs in V8, IPC, sync, and
      extensions that can lead to remote code execution outside of the sandbox.
    - CVE-2014-3168: Use-after-free in SVG.
    - CVE-2014-3169: Use-after-free in DOM.
    - CVE-2014-3170: Extension permission dialog spoofing.
    - CVE-2014-3171: Use-after-free in bindings.
    - CVE-2014-3172: Issue related to extension debugging.
    - CVE-2014-3173: Uninitialized memory read in WebGL.
    - CVE-2014-3174: Uninitialized memory read in Web Audio.
    - CVE-2014-3175: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other
      initiatives.
    - CVE-2014-3176, CVE-2014-3177: Interaction of extensions, IPC, the sync
      API, and Google V8 to execute arbitrary code.
  * Fix a shell bug in the binary-wrapper that prevented USER flags
    from working properly.
  * debian/control: Suggests chromiumflashplugin .
  * debian/apport: Significant cleanup.
  * debian/rules: Disable SSE instructions on x86 to avoid SIGILL on some CPUs.
    (LP: #1353185)
  * debian/checkout-orig-source.mk: Don't include src/ prefix in orig tarball.
  * debian/patches/*: refresh line numbers.
  * debian/patches/search-credit.patch,
    debian/patches/additional-search-engines.patch: Track source files moved.
  * debian/patches/ffmpeg-gyp-config.patch,
    debian/patches/fix-gyp-space-in-object-filename-exception.patch,
    debian/patches/gyp-icu-m32-test:
    Disabled. No longer needs fixing.
  * debian/control: build-dep on openssl.
  * debian/patches/disable-sse2: Don't require SSE/SSE2 CPU features on x86.
    (LP: #1353185)
  * debian/rules: Use built-in PDF support. (LP: #513745, #1009902)

chromium-browser (36.0.1985.143-0ubuntu1) precise-security; urgency=low

  * Upstream release 36.0.1985.143:
    - CVE-2014-3165: Use-after-free in web sockets.
    - CVE-2014-3166: Information disclosure in SPDY.
    - CVE-2014-3167: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other
      initiatives.
  * debian/rules: Avoid some unnecessary warning of invalid mv.
  * debian/rules: Don't use tcmalloc on i386.
  * debian/control: Don't have (unused) shlibs-depends on -dbg packages
    and non-binary packages.
  * debian/chromium-browser-codecs-ffmpeg-extra.dirs,
    debian/chromium-browser-codecs-ffmpeg.dirs: Removed. Unused.
  * debian/chromium-browser.lintian-overrides,
    debian/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra-dbg.lintian-overrides,
    debian/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra.lintian-overrides,
    debian/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg.lintian-overrides,
    debian/source/lintian-overrides: Add lintian overrides.
 -- Chad MILLER <email address hidden> Sun, 31 Aug 2014 17:27:11 -0400

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package chromium-browser - 37.0.2062.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1~pkg1042

---------------
chromium-browser (37.0.2062.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1~pkg1042) trusty-security; urgency=medium

  * Release to stage

chromium-browser (37.0.2062.94-0ubuntu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * Upstream release 37.0.2062.94.
    - CVE-2014-3165: Use-after-free in Blink websockets.
    - CVE-2014-3176, CVE-2014-3177: A combination of bugs in V8, IPC, sync, and
      extensions that can lead to remote code execution outside of the sandbox.
    - CVE-2014-3168: Use-after-free in SVG.
    - CVE-2014-3169: Use-after-free in DOM.
    - CVE-2014-3170: Extension permission dialog spoofing.
    - CVE-2014-3171: Use-after-free in bindings.
    - CVE-2014-3172: Issue related to extension debugging.
    - CVE-2014-3173: Uninitialized memory read in WebGL.
    - CVE-2014-3174: Uninitialized memory read in Web Audio.
    - CVE-2014-3175: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other
      initiatives.
    - CVE-2014-3176, CVE-2014-3177: Interaction of extensions, IPC, the sync
      API, and Google V8 to execute arbitrary code.
  * Fix a shell bug in the binary-wrapper that prevented USER flags
    from working properly.
  * debian/control: Suggests chromiumflashplugin .
  * debian/apport: Significant cleanup.
  * debian/rules: Disable SSE instructions on x86 to avoid SIGILL on some CPUs.
    (LP: #1353185)
  * debian/checkout-orig-source.mk: Don't include src/ prefix in orig tarball.
  * debian/patches/*: refresh line numbers.
  * debian/patches/search-credit.patch,
    debian/patches/additional-search-engines.patch: Track source files moved.
  * debian/patches/ffmpeg-gyp-config.patch,
    debian/patches/fix-gyp-space-in-object-filename-exception.patch,
    debian/patches/gyp-icu-m32-test:
    Disabled. No longer needs fixing.
  * debian/control: build-dep on openssl.
  * debian/patches/disable-sse2: Don't require SSE/SSE2 CPU features on x86.
    (LP: #1353185)
  * debian/rules: Use built-in PDF support. (LP: #513745, #1009902)

chromium-browser (36.0.1985.143-0ubuntu1) trusty-security; urgency=low

  * Upstream release 36.0.1985.143:
    - CVE-2014-3165: Use-after-free in web sockets.
    - CVE-2014-3166: Information disclosure in SPDY.
    - CVE-2014-3167: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other
      initiatives.
  * debian/rules: Avoid some unnecessary warning of invalid mv.
  * debian/rules: Don't use tcmalloc on i386.
  * debian/control: Don't have (unused) shlibs-depends on -dbg packages
    and non-binary packages.
  * debian/chromium-browser-codecs-ffmpeg-extra.dirs,
    debian/chromium-browser-codecs-ffmpeg.dirs: Removed. Unused.
  * debian/chromium-browser.lintian-overrides,
    debian/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra-dbg.lintian-overrides,
    debian/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra.lintian-overrides,
    debian/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg.lintian-overrides,
    debian/source/lintian-overrides: Add lintian overrides.
 -- Chad MILLER <email address hidden> Sun, 31 Aug 2014 17:23:14 -0400