Bug#566866: mozplugger prevents wekbit-based epiphany from opening PDFs with evince

Gustavo Noronha Silva kov at debian.org
Tue Jan 26 14:37:42 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 17:49 +0100, Lluís wrote:
> Clicking on a pdf link does not correctly open the file with evince if package
> mozplugger is installed.

This is actually a bug in mozplugger, not Epiphany.

> Keeping in mind that the "mozplugger" description explicitly states that it is
> meant to work with mozilla, it should be removed from the "suggests" field.

mozplugger is an NPAPI plugin, like any other, so it is supported by
WebKit as any other NPAPI plugin. The problem here is it is claiming the
PDF for itself, and then failing to render it.

Thanks,

-- 
Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov at debian.org>
Debian
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