283038 - Mac: firefox suggests Adobe Acrobat as default PDF app instead of Preview

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Joachim Noreiko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Mac OS Finder has the Preview app as the default for opening PDF files.
Yes firefox, both in the 'what to do with this file' dialog and the downloads
preferences, lists Adobe Acrobat as the default application for PDF files.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Rob Jaworski]

Hey Joachim, is it possible to change it in FF, or does it not give the option?

Comment 2

[Joachim Noreiko]

Yes, it is possible to select a particular application for handling PDF in the
second item in the dialog box.

My point is that the 'default application' suggestion does not match what the OS
considers to be the default.

Comment 3

[riscky]

WFM
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050318
Firefox/1.0+ (PowerBook)

Made new profile
Visited http://www.unicode.org/charts/
Selected a chartDownload dialog asked if I wanted to open with Preview (default)

Might this just be an aviary bug?

Comment 4

[Joachim Noreiko]

Attachment: The PDF download properties sheet

Here's the sheet for PDF download options on Firefox 1.0.3.
The Default Application option should be 'Preview'.

Comment 5

[Jeff Dettmann]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Hey Joachim, is it possible to change it in FF, or does it not give the option?

I am using

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716
Firefox/1.0.6

and I am not given the option to change from Acrobat 6.0 to any other
application, nor does PDF appear in the File Types selection list in download
preferences

Comment 6

[Jo Hermans]

bug 219973 ?

Comment 7

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Does this still happen using Fx 1.5?

Comment 8

[Joachim Noreiko]

Yes, Firefox 1.5 still suggests Adobe Acrobat as the default for PDF.

Comment 9

[Sam]

I've been having the opposite problem.  Thought the update might fix it.  Running OS 10.4.4 and Firefox 1.5.0.1.  Adobe is the default app for handling .pdf files, but Firefox wants to use Preview.  No options for dealing with it under Prefs>Downloads>Edit Actions.  

Comment 10

[Seth Steinberg]

It is also impossible to change the PDF handling to use the Mac default of Preview. There is no PDF entry in the list of handlers and the short list presented in the download window contains only an old version of Acrobat Reader (v5, not v7).

Comment 11

[Ray Kiddy]

Are these all dupes of each other? Or perhaps related to another meta-bug?

Bug 283038 – Mac: firefox suggests Adobe Acrobat as default PDF app instead of Preview (edit)
Bug 354971 – Insufficient options when opening PDF files (edit)
Bug 290609 – Downloaded pdfs not recognized as pdfs (edit)
Bug 299849 – Mime type ignored for a PDF or JPEG responses. (edit)

Comment 12

[Chris Blore]

Has anybody tried this with a new profile on a Firefox 2.x build? 

It WORKSFORME on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007072204 Minefield/3.0a7pre

Comment 13

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Samuel, bug 354971 is similar to this one but whether preview or acrobat reader is the default app I want to have a list of applications which can handle pdf files. The system default should be offered as default and more applications should be selectable with the pulldown menu. I don't think that's a good way either to have to specify the app within the file types dialog.

Should we combine all the bug reports to a summary like "Offer more than the default application to handle a file type"?
 

Comment 14

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

(In reply to comment #13)
> Should we combine all the bug reports to a summary like "Offer more than the
> default application to handle a file type"?

I believe that's covered in the new content handling UI stuff, but I could be wrong.

Comment 15

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Yesterday I tried the latest trunk build and wasn't able to select any other application when opening a pdf file, which is working on Windows and Linux for ages. So there is work for a new UI? Do you have a bug report for me?

Comment 16

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported using Firefox 3.0 or older, which is no longer supported. The bug has also not been changed in over 500 days and is still in UNCO.
Reporter, please retest this bug in Firefox 3.6.10 or later using a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles. If you still see this problem, please update the bug. If you no longer see the bug, please set the resolution to RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

This is a mass search of unconfirmed bugs that have no activity on them, so if you feel a bug was marked in error, just remove the CLOSEME comment in the whiteboard within the next month.

Comment 17

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.