306564 - Clicking on any PDF file URL on websites on the Internet

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Don Batts]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Using Firefox, when I encounter an interesting document in PDF format and would
like to view or download it, when I double-click on the URL for the PDF file, it
does not open the file in Adobe Acrobat, I just get a "done" message at the
bottom of the page, Adobe Acrobat (7.0) is not opened and the file is not
downloaded. When I switch to Internet Explorer and repeat the action, it works.
Windows XP, on a Dell Inspiron 1150.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
If you double click on a URL which points to a PDF file, Adobe Acrobat should be
automatically opened and the file displayed inside the Adobe software, in PDF
format.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Could you verify that the PDF plugin is loaded by looking in about:plugins (just
type this into the location bar). Also, does this do this for all PDFs, or just one?

Comment 2

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

-> closing as incomplete. Don, if this is still an issue for you, feel free to reopen, please comment then in the bug with a response to comment 1.