Brian D. Hicks writes: > After my last apt-get dist-upgrade on my Debian testing box, I ran into > a peculiar effect when attempting to view PDFs with mozilla. Even > though my preferences specifically say to view all PDFs using xpdf, > mozilla attempts to load acroread anyway (and acroread promptly crashes > or just quits, I'm not exactly sure). > > Uninstalling acroread seems to solve the problem, but I still wonder > why mozilla overrode my preferences like that. Is it possible that you have plugger installed? Plugger came along with mozilla on my Mandrake install: Plugger is a Netscape plugin which can show many types of multimedia inside your Netscape. To accomplish this, Plug ger uses external programs such as xanim, mtv, timidity and tracker. For up-to-date information on Plugger, see the plugger home page: http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html If you do have plugger, take a look at /etc/pluggerrc. Mine looks like this: application/pdf: pdf: PDF file application/x-pdf: pdf: PDF file text/pdf: pdf: PDF file text/x-pdf: pdf: PDF file repeat swallow(documentShell) fill: acroread -geometry +9000+9000 -xrm '*userFrontEndProgram: FALSE' "$file" repeat swallow(gv) fill: gv -safer -quiet -antialias -geometry +9000+9000 "$file" 2>/dev/null repeat swallow(xpdf) fill: xpdf -g +9000+9000 "$file" which means that plugger will first try acroread, then ghostview and finally xpdf. You can change your pluggerrc to make this work the way you want. Hope that helps, r