280877 - Cannot add command-line options to helper applications

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 57420

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Fabio Correa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

See below.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
[An example: using xpdf in reverse video to show a PDF]:
1.Navigator window:Edit>Preferences>Navigator>Helper applications
2.Select the "application/pdf" file type and click "Edit..."
3.Click "Open it with:" and type "xpdf -rv"
4.Click Ok, Ok.
5.Open a pdf from the web.
Actual Results:  
The following message appears:
"doc.pdf could not be opened, because the associated helper application does not
exist. Change the association in your preferences."

Expected Results:  
Xpdf sould have started in reverse video mode showing the file doc.pdf

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57420 ***