[19859] in Athena Bugs
Re: 14.A02 and acrobat plugins
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Oct 3 13:46:43 2001
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 13:46:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
cc: <bug-infoagents@mit.edu>, <f_l@mit.edu>
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, John Hawkinson wrote:
> As far as I can tell, netscape-fix doesn't try to touch your MIME types.
> So, are you suggesting that the plugin was never the default?
> I am confused.
If a user is using the global mime-types and mailcap, then he should be
getting the standalone app - that's what they're set to default to, and
my testing tells me the globals are indeed working right.
If a user has local versions of those files which point to the plugin,
then that could be a problem. Cleaning up those files is a little more
complex than cleaning up the preferences file (for one thing, settings
aren't necessarily 1:1 with the global versions) and frankly I don't know
how much we should bother messing with local mailcap and mime-types when
officially we're trying to discourage people from having them AT ALL. If
nothing else, it will require making a fix-it script that has to ask the
user a number of questions they might not know the answer to (as opposed
to fixing prefs, which can be done silently and without destroying
anything really valuable).
> > Oh, and I am sorry to say that plugin-vs-standalone may not help the crash
> > problem very much; both versions apparently have problems with large
> > documents. Stay tuned.
>
> Hmm. It appeared to help the users who were having the problems I saw.
Oh? That's reassuring. I did a limited test about six months ago when
someone reported some large-doc problems and I wasn't thrilled with the
results.
