• PDF association

    From Andrea Venturoli@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 15 06:49:30 2021
    Hello.

    My Firefox and a lot of my customers' keep changing the action for PDF
    files.

    All my customers use Windows and want to use Acrobat Reader: I set it up
    and I periodically receive calls because it changed either to internal
    PDF viewer or to Save file.

    In my case, I want to use Okular, so I set it to system default
    application; periodically it changes to "Save file".

    N.B. In case this isn't clear, it's not a user initiated change. Neither
    me nor any of my customers touches this settings, either intentionally
    or not.

    Is there a way to fix this permanently?

    bye & Thanks
    av.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?8J+YiSBHb29kIEd1eSDwn5iJ?@21:1/5 to Andrea Venturoli on Mon Feb 15 16:52:42 2021
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    On 15/02/2021 05:49, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
    Hello.

    My Firefox and a lot of my customers' keep changing the action for PDF
    files.

    All my customers use Windows and want to use Acrobat Reader: I set it
    up and I periodically receive calls because it changed either to
    internal PDF viewer or to Save file.

    In my case, I want to use Okular, so I set it to system default
    application; periodically it changes to "Save file".

    N.B. In case this isn't clear, it's not a user initiated change.
    Neither me nor any of my customers touches this settings, either intentionally or not.

    Is there a way to fix this permanently?

     bye & Thanks
        av.


    Have you changed the settings in FF to look like in this picture:

    [ Image goes here ] <https://i.imgur.com/aofRLWs.png>


    After making this change, you need to go to Windows Settings and change
    it to use your App whatever it may be.  I use Adobe products but that's
    just me but you can use any other free Apps available online as long as
    you have scanned them for any viruses attached to them.

    Good luck.


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    With over 1.2 billion devices now running Windows 10, customer
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/02/2021 05:49, Andrea Venturoli
    wrote:<br>
    </div>
    <blockquote type="cite"
    cite="mid:mailman.20.1613368178.1078.support-firefox@lists.mozilla.org">Hello.
    <br>
    <br>
    My Firefox and a lot of my customers' keep changing the action for
    PDF files.
    <br>
    <br>
    All my customers use Windows and want to use Acrobat Reader: I set
    it up and I periodically receive calls because it changed either
    to internal PDF viewer or to Save file.
    <br>
    <br>
    In my case, I want to use Okular, so I set it to system default
    application; periodically it changes to "Save file".
    <br>
    <br>
    N.B. In case this isn't clear, it's not a user initiated change.
    Neither me nor any of my customers touches this settings, either
    intentionally or not.
    <br>
    <br>
    Is there a way to fix this permanently?
    <br>
    <br>
     bye &amp; Thanks
    <br>
        av.
    <br>
    </blockquote>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>Have you changed the settings in FF to look like in this picture:</p>
    <p><a href="https://i.imgur.com/aofRLWs.png"><img
    moz-do-not-send="true" src="https://i.imgur.com/aofRLWs.png"
    alt="[ Image goes here ]" width="777" height="389" border="12"></a></p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>After making this change, you need to go to Windows Settings and
    change it to use your App whatever it may be.  I use Adobe
    products but that's just me but you can use any other free Apps
    available online as long as you have scanned them for any viruses
    attached to them.</p>
    <p>Good luck.</p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
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    <p>With over 1.2 billion devices now running Windows 10,
    customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of
    windows.</p>
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  • From Wolf K@21:1/5 to Andrea Venturoli on Mon Feb 15 11:32:08 2021
    On 2021-02-15 00:49, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
    Hello.

    My Firefox and a lot of my customers' keep changing the action for PDF
    files.

    All my customers use Windows and want to use Acrobat Reader: I set it up
    and I periodically receive calls because it changed either to internal
    PDF viewer or to Save file.

    In my case, I want to use Okular, so I set it to system default
    application; periodically it changes to "Save file".

    N.B. In case this isn't clear, it's not a user initiated change. Neither
    me nor any of my customers touches this settings, either intentionally
    or not.

    Is there a way to fix this permanently?

     bye & Thanks
        av.

    There used to be, on Win8 and earlier. But Win 10 keeps changing back to
    its own defaults. I think updates trigger that.

    Removing the offending Win10 app should make the customer-preferred
    default stick. I removed MS Office 365, and (so far) Win10 respects my
    wordproc default. (It also saved a ton of disk space, each language
    version of MS Office used about 550MB!).

    --
    Wolf K
    "You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is
    right." Lyndon B. Johnson

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  • From Andrea Venturoli@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 15 19:28:07 2021
    On 2/15/21 5:52 PM, 😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote:

    Have you changed the settings in FF to look like in this picture:

    [ Image goes here ] <https://i.imgur.com/aofRLWs.png>

    Yes.
    And I also tried choosing Acrobat Reader/Okular manually.



    After making this change, you need to go to Windows Settings and change
    it to use your App whatever it may be.

    That was already set up correctly.



    The problem is NOT that it doesn't work.
    The problem is it works for a while (days, weeks, possibly month), then
    changes to whatever FireFox likes better.

    bye & Thanks
    av.

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  • From Danny Kile@21:1/5 to Andrea Venturoli on Mon Feb 15 13:39:57 2021
    Andrea Venturoli wrote:
    On 2/15/21 5:52 PM, 😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote:

    Have you changed the settings in FF to look like in this picture:

    [ Image goes here ] <https://i.imgur.com/aofRLWs.png>

    Yes.
    And I also tried choosing Acrobat Reader/Okular manually.



    After making this change, you need to go to Windows Settings and
    change it to use your App whatever it may be.

    That was already set up correctly.



    The problem is NOT that it doesn't work.
    The problem is it works for a while (days, weeks, possibly month), then changes to whatever FireFox likes better.

     bye & Thanks
        av.

    Are days, week, possibly months are they in sync with software updates?
    Just a thought!

    Danny

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  • From Andrea Venturoli@21:1/5 to Danny Kile on Tue Feb 16 07:58:56 2021
    On 2/15/21 8:39 PM, Danny Kile wrote:

    Are days, week, possibly months are they in sync with software updates?
    Just a thought!

    I thought about this, and I suspect this, but so far I could not collect
    enough data to back this.

    So, I can't say for sure the problem is triggered by an update, but I'm
    sure not every update triggers the problem.

    bye & Thanks
    av.

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  • From Andrea Venturoli@21:1/5 to Wolf K on Tue Feb 16 07:56:25 2021
    On 2/15/21 5:32 PM, Wolf K wrote:

    There used to be, on Win8 and earlier. But Win 10 keeps changing back to
    its own defaults. I think updates trigger that.

    As I said, I don't have this problem only on Windows.



    Removing the offending Win10 app should make the customer-preferred
    default stick. I removed MS Office 365, and (so far) Win10 respects my wordproc default. (It also saved a ton of disk space, each language
    version of MS Office used about 550MB!).

    The "system default" app doesn't change.
    Firefox action for PDFs does.

    bye & Thanks
    ax.

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