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From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
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Subject: Re: Help!  Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$
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>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 ?

In Firefox, Edit->Preferences, click the Applications tab, look for
application/pdf and make the obvious adjustments.

I find that for nearly everything else, chromium works better than
firefox, but for PACER, only Firefox supports RECAP.  You do use
RECAP, I hope.

R's,
John

PS: On my FBSD 9.0, acroread8 works OK, much slower than evince but in
some cases it renders the PDF better, and often translates to
postscript better for printing.