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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
Subject: Re: Help!  Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

> So, on FreeBSD, how does one get firefox and/or opera to use, for example,
> evince or some other PDF displayer instead of using this goddamn lousey
> buggy *&^%$#@ acroread ?

Remove acroread entirely.  Install graphics/xpdf.  Click on a PDF link, 
tell Firefox to use xpdf and do that for all files of this type.