[arch-general] Getting firefox to use the PDF I want?

Mauro Santos registo.mailling at gmail.com
Fri Jul 23 20:19:26 EDT 2010


On 07/23/2010 09:50 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
> Mauro Santos wrote:
>> On 07/23/2010 08:12 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
>>
>>> 	Note that if you set it up once in the pop-up, it will remember it
>>> for the next time *even if it doesn't say so*. So the next time you
>>> get the "Open with..." dialog with apparently no application
>>> selected, you can just hit OK and it should open in okular...
>>>
>>> 		Jerome
>>
>> However it will forget whatever you had there once you select any other
>> option (such as save) instead of open.
>>
> 	True, OTOH you can always save through the right click menu, in
> which case it will keep the selection in the "Open with..." dialog.
> At which point it will only forget it if you try to open with some
> other app once. (Of course if you're going to use the right-click
> menu for save anyway, you might as well store okular as the default
> action and not bother with the dialog)
> 
> 		Jerome

You have a very good point there, I have only mentioned it because
sometimes one might want to save the files and other times open the
files directly, and the sudden loss of memory can be quite puzzling if
you are not expecting it.

-- 
Mauro Santos


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