Bug#631431: chromium: I get "missing plugin" when opening PDF (mozplugger is there!)

Paolo Saggese NO.SPAM at lngs.infn.it
Thu Jun 23 19:41:08 UTC 2011


Package: chromium
Version: 12.0.742.91~r87961-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

weird problems with PDF and mozplugger.

(actually, I don't know if the problem affects only PDF or also other/all 
mozplugger supported formats as well).

mozplugger works just fine with any other browser, *INCLUDING chrome*, of 
course if I disable it's "internal" plugin!!! :o

(google-chrome-stable  12.0.742.100-r88853)

With chromium, if mozplugger is enabled, opening a pdf (for instance, links
on "arxiv", like: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0806.2400v1 ) will result in chromium
reporting a "missing plugin" error (if I disable mozplugger, opening the same 
URL would results in pdf file download).

I've also tried some mozplugger config tricks that I've found suggested on 
the 'net:

### Acrobat Reader
#define(ACROREAD, [repeat swallow(acroread) fill : acroread -openInNewWindow /a "$fragment" "$file"])                   
# original, don't work
#define(ACROREAD, [repeat needs_xembed swallow(acroread) fill : acroread -openInNewWindow /a "$fragment" "$file"])      
# don't work either
define(ACROREAD, [repeat swallow(acroread) fill needs_xembed : acroread -openInNewWindow /a "$fragment" "$file"])       
# don't work either

(and also to let it open the pdf "externally", without "swallow", etc). 
Same thing.

Apparently mozplugger is correctly recognized by chromium:

Relevant text from "about:plugins":

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
MozPlugger 1.14.3 handles QuickTime and Windows Media Player Plugin
MozPlugger version 1.14.3, maintained by Louis Bavoil and Peter Leese, a fork of plugger written by Fredrik Hübinette.
For documentation on how to configure mozplugger, check the man page. (type man mozplugger)
Configuration file:	/etc/mozpluggerrc
Helper binary:	mozplugger-helper
Controller binary:	mozplugger-controller
Link launcher binary:	mozplugger-linker
Debug file:	$TMDIR/mozdebug
MozPlugger: syntax error in mozpluggerrc config file
Name:	MozPlugger 1.14.3 handles QuickTime and Windows Media Player Plugin
Description:	MozPlugger version 1.14.3, maintained by Louis Bavoil and Peter Leese, a fork of plugger written by Fredrik Hübinette.
For documentation on how to configure mozplugger, check the man page. (type man mozplugger)
Configuration file:	/etc/mozpluggerrc
Helper binary:	mozplugger-helper
Controller binary:	mozplugger-controller
Link launcher binary:	mozplugger-linker
Debug file:	$TMDIR/mozdebug
MozPlugger: syntax error in mozpluggerrc config file
Version:	
Location:	/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mozplugger.so
[...omissis...]
application/pdf		PDF file		.pdf
application/x-pdf	PDF file		.pdf
text/pdf		PDF file		.pdf
text/x-pdf		PDF file		.pdf
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

BTW: why does it says: "handles QuickTime and Windows Media Player Plugin"?!
what about all the other countless content types supported by mozplugger???

(nevertheless, same thing on google-chrome).

Eventually, I've been able to view pdf using the "copy libpdf.so from chrome" 
trick, but I would definitely prefer to be able to use mozplugger and choose 
whatever pdf viewer I like! 

Most of all I'd like to open them in a separate viewer window *outside* the 
browser, as I do with other browsers (using mozplugger).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (190, 'testing'), (180, 'unstable'), (7, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  chromium-inspector 12.0.742.91~r87961-1  page inspector for the chromium br
ii  libasound2         1.0.23-2.1            shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libbz2-1.0         1.0.5-6               high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6              2.13-7                Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2          1.10.2-6              The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcups2           1.4.4-7               Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.2.24-4              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2   0.88-2.1              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevent-1.4-2     1.4.13-stable-1       An asynchronous event notification
ii  libexpat1          2.0.1-7               XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1     2.8.0-2.1             generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6       2.4.4-1               FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1            1:4.4.5-8             GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4        2.32.3-2              GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11        1.4.6-5               LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.23.3-3              GDK Pixbuf library
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.28.6-1              The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.24.4-3              The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62          6b1-1                 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnspr4-0d        4.8.6-1               NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d         3.12.9-2~bpo60+1      Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpam0g           1.1.1-6.1             Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0      1.28.3-6              Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0         1.2.44-1              PNG library - runtime
ii  libspeex1          1.2~rc1-1             The Speex codec runtime library
ii  libstdc++6         4.6.0-10              The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvpx0            0.9.6-1               VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii  libx11-6           2:1.3.3-4             X11 client-side library
ii  libxdamage1        1:1.1.3-1             X11 damaged region extension libra
ii  libxext6           2:1.1.2-1             X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2            2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1        1:0.9.6-1             X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxslt1.1         1.1.26-6              XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt
ii  libxss1            1:1.2.0-2             X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  libxtst6           2:1.1.0-3             X11 Testing -- Record extension li
ii  xdg-utils          1.0.2+cvs20100307-2   desktop integration utilities from
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3      compression library - runtime

chromium recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
ii  chromium-l10n       12.0.742.91~r87961-1 chromium-browser language packages

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