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• No, it wasn't Sync (though I do use that). The new firefox4 package in my distro disabled gnomevfs and used gio instead, causing the difference.

  in Linux: type application/pdf cannot be handled natively Comment by ngoonee May 2, 2011
• Thanks, yes I remember that 'View Item' in 2.0. Will wait then (and use my mouse for the time-being).

  in Keyboard shortcut for opening record/file? Comment by ngoonee March 18, 2011
• I'm on Arch Linux, I'm pretty sure the firefox4 downloads from mozilla.org have nspr (and other lib) versions which are compatible with the big distros. At Arch we get software just as soon as a stable is released (nspr 4.8.6 was on 18th August last…

  in Linux: type application/pdf cannot be handled natively Comment by ngoonee March 11, 2011
• And the compilation just finished, that indeed solved things (for me). It now uses xdg-open (like it used to do with firefox3). Thanks a million Dan Stillman, could not have figured this out myself.

  in Linux: type application/pdf cannot be handled natively Comment by ngoonee March 11, 2011
• I'm recompiling my firefox4 with --with-system-nspr, will see if that helps. May simply be an incompatibility there. I'm pretty sure based on previous experience that firefox doesn't normally do desktop-specific stuff (so the fact that I'm using awe…

  in Linux: type application/pdf cannot be handled natively Comment by ngoonee March 11, 2011
• Thank you Dan, I just tested with trunk, indeed I get this:- launch() not supported -- passing file to loadURI() Sad to hear there's not much more I can do from the zotero end. Will continue to troubleshoot, thanks for your help.

  in Linux: type application/pdf cannot be handled natively Comment by ngoonee March 10, 2011
• I've read the threads (http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/7250/linux-choose-program-to-open-pdf-files-from-zotero/#Item_16 was created by me, and another 2 that I read at that time are listed there). What you're basically saying is that my OS …

  in Linux: type application/pdf cannot be handled natively Comment by ngoonee March 10, 2011
• Not in my case, it used to do so. Thanks for the link though. If that did work, I would not be getting the last debug line in my original post (cannot be handled natively).

  in Linux: type application/pdf cannot be handled natively Comment by ngoonee March 10, 2011
• @Simon - I'm not sure if I'm doing things properly, but option 1) does not seem to work for me. In my case, tabbed mode behaves differently to pane-mode, in tabbed mode no matter what I do it does not seem to save, but in pane mode it does. I'v…

  in Zotero does not retain window settings Comment by ngoonee March 9, 2011
• Apologies, I thought beta stuff was in this forum (even bug reports) so did not read that forum. Will continue there.

  in Column order is not maintained over firefox restarts Comment by ngoonee March 9, 2011
• Thank you. I will continue to investigate the issue and post back here if there's something else to report.

  in Linux - choose program to open PDF files from zotero Comment by ngoonee May 29, 2009
• I'm sorry, but what I'm seeing suggests that it IS a zotero issue. At the very least, zotero misidentifies the document type (since the firefox behaviour for application/pdf works when I browse to a pdf file) and thus passes the wrong type to firefo…

  in Linux - choose program to open PDF files from zotero Comment by ngoonee May 29, 2009