Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:01:05 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$ Message-ID: <20121212180105.GA24685@hemlock.hydra> In-Reply-To: <29812.1355274972@tristatelogic.com> References: <29812.1355274972@tristatelogic.com>
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--0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 05:16:12PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >=20 > This problem has been annoying me for some time now, but until now > it was never really an issue that I could not easily work-around. >=20 > I was just trying to download a PDF document off of the Pacer[tm] > federal courts web site. These are not free. They cost ten cents > per page. I tried to download a 29 page document and it downloaded > into firefox just fine and then was displayed in a new firefox tab > which was apparently using acroread8 to display the document. >=20 > I know from past experience that acroreadN runs like crap on FreeBSD... > often using up enormous amounts of CPU % for no apparently good reason. > But this time it really got my goat. I clicked on the little acroread > icon for printing the current document, a pop-up dialog box for printing > came up, but before I could hit the print button on that, everything > relating to firefox... all open tabs and all open windows... froze up > solid. >=20 > Now, having wasted three bucks for no good reason (and STILL not having > a hardcopy of the document I wanted), I am motivated to finally get this > sorted out. >=20 > 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 ? The first thing to do should simply be to uninstall acroread. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlDIxmEACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXGSQCgnvoiB73v011IvuVznc1Mlwdg nfkAoPKAXBoFJEhSqJ/sFZUx48cnuLD/ =4uI7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE--
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