Bug#284922: mozilla-bonobo: Disabled MIME-types still get re-enabled

[Loic Minier]

        Hi,

On Sat, Oct 22, 2005, Heikki Kantola wrote:
> I can still reproduce this problem:
> Once upon a time, I configured Mozilla Bonobo plugin so that the
> plugin does not handle PDF files (I tend to prefer using Acrobat
> Reader in separate windows). Now recently (apparently since the latest
> Mozilla Bonobo upgrade), PDFs appear within browser¹ windows shown
> using gpdf, which is just what I did not want. And more worrying is
> that if I use gconf-editor to set "/apps/mozilla-bonobo/mime-types/
> ignore" to include "application/pdf" and "application/x-pdf" the
> setting has no effect! Trying fresh Mozilla profile is pretty much out
> of question, I'm not wishing to loose anything of my current setup.

 I'm afraid mozilla-bonobo is quite end-of-life.  I suggest you try
 mozplugger, which looks like it'll replace mozilla-bonobo.

 (Of course, this is not a solution to your bug.)

   Cheers,
-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>