286552 - user can not override plugins, i.e. force use of an external instead of an internal helper application

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 19118

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Sven Utcke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913

In my environment, all users have

kogspc2>/home/utcke% echo $MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH 
/software/acrobat-5.0.7/Browsers/intellinux:/software/flash-7/Linux/plugins:/software/j2sdk1.4.2_04/Linux/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32

which, among other things, enables the acrobat-plugin.  However, I prefer to
read pdf's in a seperate acrobat (for several reasons, most noteably that the
keybindings inside the acrobat plugin interfer with my window-manager, and that
the plugin is for some reason dead-slow).  Ok, I realise I _could_ simply edit
MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH, but I don't think I should need to.  Instead the following
_should_ work:

Edit -> Preferences... -> Navigator - Helper Applications

choose application/pdf

Edit...
Open it with: acroread
OK

But now mozilla tells me:

  Mozilla can handle this type internally.  For such types, a Helper Application
  will only be invoked if the server requests external handling.

Excuse me?  I don't give a flying f*ck what the server requests, I, The User,
just requested external handling, and no matter how proud mozilla is that it can
now use plugins, I at least expect a button / checkbox / whatever which allows
me to override this.  Well, not so...



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Edit -> Preferences... -> Navigator - Helper Applications
2.choose application/pdf
3.Edit... Open it with: acroread OK

Actual Results:  
mozilla tells me:

  Mozilla can handle this type internally.  For such types, a Helper Application
  will only be invoked if the server requests external handling.

Expected Results:  
Simply do what I asked it to do: Use the external application I entered!

Comment 1

[Elmar Ludwig]

This is covered by bug 19118.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19118 ***