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Re: Launching PDF in Firefox yeilds "Could not launch Acrobat.".

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From: Neal_Crook
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:21
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      >Under Tools->Options->Applications, I have nothing for "Adobe" in my
      content Type. Any ideas how to get it to populate in there?




Assuming you have acrobat installed, this worked for me:

1. start acrobat (for me this was Acrobat Reader 8 )
2. help -> repair acrobat reader installation
3. stop and restart firefox

now I have entries for pdf and everything works again

[for me, this problem was apparently caused by installing a program that *took the liberty* of installing an ancient version of Acrobat even though I already had 8 installed. After that happened, Firefox refused to open pdf files. I uninstalled the ancient version of acrobat, rebooted etc. etc. to no avail, then found this thread, and looked in Tools->Options->Applications to find nothing for "Adobe"]
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Subject: Re: Launching PDF in Firefox yeilds "Could not launch Acrobat.".
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