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Bug 86454
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 23 years ago
Mozilla Not Paying Attention to Registry Settings Associated With Acrobat
Categories
(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P1)
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(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
INVALID
People
(Reporter: lmcquarr, Assigned: mscott)
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Details
(Whiteboard: pdt+)
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When Acrobat is installed, we do more that drop our plug-in into the appropriate
plug-ins directory. There are actually a number of browser-related registry
settings that are set for IE and Nav 4.X to allow Acrobat to be a helper
application for a handfull of other file types:
PDFX -- Acrobat catalog
RMF -- Acrobat Digital Rights Management (eBooks)
applicaton/vnd.rmf
FDF and XFDF -- Acrobat forms data format
application/vdn.fdf
application/vnd.adobe.xfdf
When I queried Arun as to how to set the registry settings in our installer
for mozilla, this is what he found out:
From av:
"Is not registration as a helper app just a system specific thing? At least on
Windows it is all
specified in the registry where Mozilla looks to see what helper apps are
present. Should be
irrelevant to the browser. Or am I missing something?"
No build of mozilla (including today's) that
I have ever used has ever properly set itself up for the above Acrobat-related
mime types. Even when it converts a 4.X profile, it does not know
about these mime types.
Arun suggested that I therefore enter a bug. I will be adding more detail
to this bug on exactly what our installer sets up in the registry for
these mime types.
I am putting the browser-related registry settings we set in Acrobat
in an attachment (cut and pasted from our browser setting repair code).
URL: (not applicable) → (not applicable)
Comment 3•23 years ago
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Liz suggested the possibility that a workaround exists for this registry matter,
and that her patch installer could do it. Any suggestions?
'BTW -- There must be some way for these registry items to be set up correctly,
either by fixing mozilla or something we can do in our patch installer. FDF
is required for Acrobat forms to work and RMF is required for eBooks to work. '
If Mozilla isn't looking up the registry for helper applications, then lots of
things are affected. I'm CC'ing ssu for advice, and peterl as well.
Comment 4•23 years ago
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Over to mscott who (I think) owns helper apps.
This bug almost sounds like an installer or profile migration bug, but it's
weird. Liz, would running the updated Acrobat installer fix up these keys?
If this is something that needs to be done in the installer (or profile
migration), our embedding vendors may want to know about it.
Assignee: av → mscott
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Comment 5•23 years ago
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You shouldn't have to do anything special. Acrobat (as a helper app) works for
me right out of the box. I install it. I can see that it tweaks my registry
settings binding .pdf files to launch acrobat. I then click on a PDF file and
acrobat is launched (assuming I select Open at the helper app dialog and not save).
Can you give me an example I can test where this doesn't work for you?
Updated•23 years ago
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Priority: -- → P1
Updated•23 years ago
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Keywords: mozilla0.9.2
If you look at my attachments for registry settings, it is not
Acrobat as a helper application for PDF that I am concerned about.
It is for these file and mime types that I describe in the bug
report (RMF, FDF, XFDF, PDFX). These mime types do NOT work
for me when I do a fresh install of mozilla. I have to hand
edit the preferences in order to set them up.
You can see this if you open the mozilla prefs -- there are no
helper apps registered for FDF, RMF, XFDF etc (you must install
Acrobat first -- OK to use free reader at this point).
BTW -- when you drop the NPPDF32.dll plug-in into the mozilla
plug-ins folder (which we will do in our SP1 Acrobat 5 update
installer), our plug-in becomes the handler for .PDF files
(this is the desired behavior, not launching
Acrobat as a helper application.
If you want a test case, here is one for Acrobat forms:
1 - Install Acrobat 5 -- free reader from www.adobe.com or
borrow a full product that I gave to various folks there
like Andrei.
2 - Run mozilla and browse to http://access.adobe.com/browser/pingform.pdf
3 - Press the SUBMIT button
Expected result:
Large box on the left hand bottom of screen filled FDF.
(compare with Netscape 4.X)
Comment 7•23 years ago
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Marking this one pdt+ after a discussion with chofmann -- and adding chofmann to
the cc' list.
Whiteboard: pdt+
Assignee | ||
Comment 8•23 years ago
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There might be several conflicting problems here. I don't think any of them are
helper app related.
After installing Acrobat 5.0, I browsed my registry settings and found the
correct mappings for PDF, RMF, FDF, and XFDF.
Acrobat DID NOT install any registry settings for PDFX.
So it makes sense that PDFX wouldn't work because there aren't registry settings
for that.
Are you sure we aren't talking about plugins not properly recognizing these mime
types? I'm seeing acrobat get properly invoked as a helper app using mozilla
when I click on files with these extensions. I'm still looking for some test
urls that contain .xfdf and .fdf on the net. when I run your test case, we start
up acrobat as a helper app and I click on the submit button but it says I need
to be running within a browser to do this.
Assignee | ||
Comment 9•23 years ago
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http://sonify.org/tools/freesounds/sfx/animals/ contains .rmf file links which
when I click on properly launch acrobat 5 for me as a helper app.
Reporter | ||
Comment 10•23 years ago
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Hi folks: sorry I have been a bit out of the loop. Let me ask a naive
question: Just where can I get a version of mozilla that actually
installs (rather than a zip file)? If you can point me at the
installable version, then I can verify that the behavior is
working as you say and you can close this bug.
(With regards to PDFX -- that is not very important in the
grand scheme of things. )
Comment 11•23 years ago
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Assignee | ||
Comment 12•23 years ago
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btw, it shouldn't matter if you are using a installed version or a zip version.
These settings all come from the windows registry and aren't set by Netscape. We
are just reading them in. The code's the same regardless of how you installed
the app from a helper app point of view.
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Comment 13•23 years ago
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Hi folks:
I have also verified that this is not a bug. Mozilla *is* paying attention
to the settings for FDF, RMF, etc (some previous version that I was
using did not). It is, however, confusing that when you open the preferences
for helper applications, these settings do not show up (only text/html).
You may close this bug and I apologize for the wild goose chase I sent
you on (doing too many things at once, as usual).
Liz
Comment 14•23 years ago
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Per Liz McQuarrie's comments, this is invalid.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Updated•2 years ago
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Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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