205167 - (optionally) favor helpers over full-page plugins

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 191546

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement)

Description

[Aaron M. Ucko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030430 Galeon/1.3.4 Debian/1.3.4.20030509-1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030430 Galeon/1.3.4 Debian/1.3.4.20030509-1

As I find plugins most suitable for embedded objects, I would like to be able to
tell Mozilla to favor external helpers for full-page resources -- especially
things like PostScript and PDF documents for which I want all the screen
real-estate I can get.  (Being able to enable this option for a particular set
of MIME types would be especially great.)

Alternatively, viewing with an external helper could be an additional
context-menu option.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a plugin for a type (say, application/pdf) commonly encountered as
full-page resources.
2. Navigate to some document of that type.


Actual Results:  
The document's viewer is constrained to the size of the relevant browser window,
which imposes some extra borders even in full-screen mode.

Expected Results:  
I would have liked to be able to view it in an external helper application,
which can potentially have a larger (and in particular, taller) geometry.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Related: bug 188840, bug 116027 and bug 191546.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

dupe of bug 191546 (which was also reported by the same reporter)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 191546 ***

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

soory I got confused, It was bug 188840 that has the same reporter as bug
191546, not this one.