[Mozilla Enterprise] Setting Firefox to open PDFs in Adobe Reader

Thane K. Sherrington thane at computerconnectionltd.com
Mon Feb 25 17:08:09 UTC 2019


It'd be nice if the mimetypes.rdf could be programmatically generated so 
that I could setup common types and how to handle them.

Thane K. Sherrington

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thane at computerconnectionltd.com
On 25/02/2019 10:50 a.m., Mike Kaply wrote:
> Setting the preference
>
> pdfjs.disabled
>
> to true
>
> will cause the PDFs to not be shown in the browser. There is a policy 
> that controls that as well.
>
> The user will still be asked what to do. We don't have a way to 
> prevent that dialog (yet)
>
> Mike Kaply
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 6:06 AM Thane K. Sherrington 
> <thane at computerconnectionltd.com 
> <mailto:thane at computerconnectionltd.com>> wrote:
>
>     Is there a way to programmatically set Firefox to open PDFs in
>     Adobe Reader and then lock that setting?
>
>     -- 
>     Thane K. Sherrington
>
>     Computer Connection, Ltd. ...taking the mystery out of computers
>     since 1982.
>     Winner of the 2012 Ian Spencer - Excellence in Business Award
>     *Thanks for making us the Reader's Choice Best Computer Store in
>     2016, 2017, and 2018!*
>     95 College St., Antigonish,
>     NS B2G 1X6
>     902-863-3361 (phone)
>     902-863-2580 (fax)
>     thane at computerconnectionltd.com
>     <mailto:thane at computerconnectionltd.com>
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