On 07/24/2011 05:33 PM, gene heskett wrote: > On Sunday, July 24, 2011 04:32:28 PM Steve Stallings did opine: > >> Aside from the boatload of Acrobat PDF issues common >> to all web sites when using Firefox, I have no problems >> reading the EMC WIKI using Firefox 5.0 on W2K. >> >> Steve Stallings >> > It isn't working here Steve, won't even fetch the front page. Java, and > javascript are enabled, and cookies are being accepted. > > As far as the acroread v firefox debate is concerned, ff is not calling > acroread anymore, but either Okular or foxitreader. I insulted the minds > that made that choice for KDE and got to tell the author of one of them > Okular I think, that he needed to do a hell of a lot more alpha testing > because no way in hell was it good enough to be a beta version. No sizing > controls available, and when I send a text file or a gfx file to my brother > laser, it prints as if it thinks the printers pixel is about 600 dpi > horizontally, while its 300 dpi vertically. 2 months ago, before KDE > swapped all this around, that printer worked flawlessly and did exactly > what you told it to do, now I am missing the right hand 2 or 3 words of > everything I try to print. Where I came from, we spread that stuff on the > fields and with enough of it and rain, get 220 bushels/acre. If someone > has an older copy of FF, and could post the line in about:config that calls > acroread %f, it might be just what the Dr. ordered.
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