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Subject: Re: Acroread7 with Firefox
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Beecher Rintoul wrote:
> Has anyone gotten acroread to work with Firefox? I have linuxpluginwrapper and 
> acroread7 installed. In addition both Java and Flash are installed and work. 
> I have tried both the plugin install script and symlinking the plugin to 
> browser plugins, but when I do about:plugins in Firefox it doesn't show up. I 
> tried google but I couldn't find anything helpful.  Acroread7 does work as a 
> standalone. Am I missing something?

Well, I'm not actually answering your questions, but I'll give my 2 
cents anyway...

Why do I have to install Acroread to have Flash and Java plugins 
working? Is there a reason linuxpluginwrapper is monolithic and does not 
allow independent selection of the three?

  bye & Thanks
	av.