[Mozilla Enterprise] Policy 'DisableBuiltinPDFViewer' disables the pdf file handler

[Mike Kaply]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:54 AM Dimas Streich (Informàtica Trueta) <
dstreich.girona.ics at gencat.cat> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We've problems with some PDFs and the Firefox pdfjs implementation and we
> need to disable it. If we set the policy 'DisableBuiltinPDFViewer' to true
> the PDF handler disappears inside Options > General > Applications, so we
> can't use the Adobe connector to visualize it and the user is forced to
> download or open the PDF.
>

What is the Adobe connector? If the PDF isn't viewed within Firefox using
our viewer, open or download would be the only other choices. There's no
way to route it to Firefox (because there is no Acrobat/PDF plugin)

Mike



>
>
> If we set the policy back to false it appears again:
>
>
> Is it an expected behaviour?
>
> We use Firefox 68 ESR latest version, I don't know if the following issue
> happens with the Firefox 78, but can't update yet.
>
> PD. One of the problems with the Firefox pdfjs is that it don't show the
> digital signatures. Do you know if it will be solved soon?
> --
>
>
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