Hi Marion,

I tried on a Solaris 10 box, but didn't reproduce the problem.
I don't have evince installed on the box, instead I set the preferred
viewer to some test script. Then I saw the test script is executed .

Does the problem on your box only exists for pdf viewer, or also for
other application preferences?

Best,
-Evan

Marion Hakanson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm using this firefox 3.0.1 build from releases.mozilla.org:
>       firefox-3.0.1.en-US-solaris-10-fcs-i386-pkg
>
> When I view a PDF file, firefox ignores my preferred viewer (as
> set in Edit -> Preferences -> Applications) and instead invokes
> the gpdf viewer.  I prefer to use "evince", and prior to trying
> firefox-3.0 and 3.0.1, firefox 2.0 of various revs did as directed.
>
> Running firefox3 under truss seems to indicate that it's searching
> my PATH for the first of these executables:
>       acroread, gpdf, xpdf, gv
>
> It then ends up exec-ing /usr/bin/gpdf, which is the first of
> the above that it found on my system (Solaris-10U5).  Any suggestions
> on how to get it to pay attention to the Preferences setting?
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Marion
>
>
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