On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 2:08 PM Dimas Streich (Informàtica Trueta) < [email protected]> wrote:
> > El 19/10/2020 a les 19:03, Mike Kaply ha escrit: > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:54 AM Dimas Streich (Informàtica Trueta) < > [email protected]> 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) > > You're right, the Adobe connector doesn't work with Firefox 64bits. But is > it normal that the PDF handler disappears and user can't opt to ask or open > forever, or use the external reader (Adobe Reader) for default? > What are you getting when you open a PDF? You should still get the helper dialog and the user can make a choice what to do with that PDF. If you disabled pdfjs, Firefox at that point doesn't know what to do with PDFs. There are cases when PDFs are sent with the wrong mime type and we can't handle them properly. > > By the way, a noob question: is it possible to reset or change a user > preference with policies with Firefox 68 ESR? I've seen the new Preferences > policy in 78.3, it's very interesting but we can't use it yet. But anyway > it don't support pdfjs.* preferences? :-( > Are there some specific preferences you want? I can just add pdfjs to the list. > > For some reason we changed DisableBuiltinPDFViewer to false but many users > still have pdfjs.disabled to true. The only way to change it is using the > autoconfig pref()? > You can definitely clear the pref using autoconfig - *clearPref(prefName)* > > 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? > I don't have an answer to that one. It hasn't come up before. I'll mention it to the PDF folks. FYI, the issue is: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/1076 Mike
_______________________________________________ Enterprise mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe"
