From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 12 18:01:27 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7DAA8DC for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:01:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com [69.89.22.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6BE8D8FC1A for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:01:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 4881 invoked by uid 0); 12 Dec 2012 18:01:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by oproxy8.bluehost.com with SMTP; 12 Dec 2012 18:01:05 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=apotheon.com; s=default; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=tJGcSf2iLn+ycjl+DHYIf/6XBbvXTLZqD+uhlZZtQ6k=; b=iDwAba++Xq0PA3exx5RPtps8C/zJDy4L47iX5nGD+571os8yzChkPEVDRyH1MdhChxWmB4lajaH9jaLyPZC/aquSGu4CrIIQh5dftOSF1hwiVyrbn5DEDjFMBshhsgGv; Received: from [24.9.112.144] (port=60303 helo=localhost) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:CAMELLIA128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TiqcD-00082b-FY for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:01:05 -0700 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:01:05 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$ Message-ID: <20121212180105.GA24685@hemlock.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <29812.1355274972@tristatelogic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <29812.1355274972@tristatelogic.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.com} {sentby:smtp auth 24.9.112.144 authed with perrin@apotheon.com} X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:01:27 -0000 --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--