738955 - Enabling PDF Viewer should disable the PDF application association

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect)

Description

[Scoobidiver (away)]

After accepting the PDF Viewer installation, you think it's your default PDF viewer, but that's not the case as your PDF plugin/reader has prevalence.

Enabling (resp. disabling) PDF Viewer should disable (resp. enable) the PDF application association (Options window - Applications panel).

Comment 1

[:aceman]

But only if the user enabled the pdf.fs consciously, not when it is installed secretly as in bug 738674.

Comment 2

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

(In reply to :aceman from comment #1)
> But only if the user enabled the pdf.fs consciously, not when it is
> installed secretly as in bug 738674.

Firefox doesn't show a confirmation dialog for other new features, why it should show the dialog for the PDF Viewer?

Comment 3

[:aceman]

Because it overrides a (supposedly) user chosen plugin?
Other FF features do not do that, they add new functionality.
You also try to migrate user prefs in new FF versions if a functionality still exists but the prefs are different.

Comment 4

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

I don't think it should *disable* the PDF application association, it should *be* the PDF application association: like feeds and podcasts have an option "Preview in Firefox", pdfs could have an option "View in Firefox". And the "Always ask" option would ask whether to open in firefox or with the given external apps.

Comment 5

[Mihaela Velimiroviciu (:mihaelav)]

This bug is no longer valid since the PDF Viewer was integrated in browser code and addon is no longer used.