On Thursday, May 02, 2013 03:48:47 PM David E. Ross wrote: > On 5/2/13 1:35 PM, Upscope wrote: > > I want to change my seamonkey browser to use a reader other than > > Adobe Reader for pdfs. I searched about:config and on web but > > cannot find where to change it. Configuration is in signature. > > > > Seamonkey version: 2.17 > > User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 > > Firefox/20.0 SeaMonkey/2.17 > > > > Build identifier: 2013033000 > > > > Any help will be appreciated. > > > > Russ > > 1. On the SeaMonkey menu bar, select [Edit > Preferences]. > > 2. On the Preferences window, select [Browser > Helper Applications]. > > 3. On the Helper Applications pane, scroll down to Adobe Acrobat. > You will see several entries. (I get 7.) > > 4. If you place your cursor over an entry on the left under "Cojntent > Type" without clicking, you will get a tooltip with the MIME type. > You likely want "application/pdf). Left-click on the entry you want. > > 5. On the right under "Action", open the selection list by > left-clicking on the button with the down-pointing triangle. > > 6. Select "Other". > > 7. On the Select Helper Application window, either select an > application from the scrolling list or else select the Browse button > to navigate to the application you want to use. > > 8. Select OK buttons to apply your change and close the windows. > > -- > David E. Ross > <http://www.rossde.com/> > > Are taxes too high in the U.S.? Check the bar graph > at <http://www.rossde.com/taxes/trickling.html> to see. > _______________________________________________ > support-seamonkey mailing list > support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey Thanks it is slightly different on 2.17 (at least the version supplied from openSUSE repo. [CODE] User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0 SeaMonkey/2.17 [/CODE]
on step 4 it only shows: [CODE] PDF Document [/CODE] them in step 6 it is: [CODE] Use Other [/CODE] >From there I was able to find the program I wanted: Okular ) in /usr/bin. it now shows okular as the viewer. This works Thanks for your help. Russ -- openSUSE 12.3(Linux 3.7.10-1.1-desktop x86_64)|KDE 4.10.2 "release 556"|Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ,|8GB DDR3|GeForce 8400GS(NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.32) _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
