From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 Description of problem: Tried setting up Acrobat Reader, acroread, as helper app in Mozilla 0.9.9 app for pdf files. Specfied program using full path name, e.g. /usr/local/share/Acrobat5/bin/acroread %s. Did so as /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin is not in my path. Would not work. Instead, Mozilla went to the next entry in /etc/pluggerrc and launched gv. Got acroread to work by putting symlink to above command in /usr/local/bin, which IS in path. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Configure helper app using full path 2.Lanuch Mozilla 3.Open page having embedded pdf file Actual Results: gv (Ghost View) opened, rather than acroread Expected Results: acroread should have opened Additional info: Instructions to use fully qualifed path name were as instructed by adobe. However, man plugger indicates that, "Note that Plugger will check the first word of the command and search your $PATH for that command. If that command is not found Plugger will go to the next line in your plug- errc." This says to me that plugger does not parse the command correctly.
What happens if you leave off the %s at the end of the command? I think that you just need to specify that path, and that's it.
Didn't work for me. Tried it leaving off the %s. Made no difference.
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