So there was a tad bit of downtime with the server across the past few days but it’s all good and over, and everything is back again. =) There might be a few problems here and there for reasons I am not quite sure, but send me a message and I’ll deal with it.
So I was spending a few days of the week that has gone by – has it only been a week? Wow. Troubleshooting my computer. Came across the worst problem ever when installing the whole Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium over my previous Adobe Creative Suite 2 and my ever awesome, FAST-loading Adobe Acrobat 7. It’s rather amusing how acrobat 6 was a real slow bugger [on my old computer at any rate] and acrobat 8 just had the worst symbol/character recognition but acrobat 7 was made of pure win. Kind of like Windows XP compared to Windows Vista. =P pointed cough
So the problem I encountered? My Firefox adobe acrobat plugin to get it to load corrupted itself and I deleted it. II vaguely remembered solving it once with a really easy solution [and then forgetting it - perhaps I mentioned it in this blog, but it was down so how possibly could I look it up? =( However, it is rather cool that my blog is practically 5 years old now and I can look up quite a lot of stuff I guess]
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Sooo:
Fix: How to solve the problem of the situation where you erase .pdf associations in firefox
So when Adobe reader 8 installs and adobe acrobat 7 just doesn’t work anymore and you idiotically remove association with the plugin,
all it takes to fix it is making the .pdf automatically open in something [important step to get .pdf to appear in that manage filetypes area!] then go to tools > options > manage file types and change it there!
… can’t believe I spent a whole day figuring that out again. I knew I solved it before. :/
Of course the problem was trying to get .pdf to show up as a filetype and I really didn’t want to automate if if I couldn’t change it after.
Also, be sure to change things AFTER you uninstall acrobat reader 8 or whatever and repair acrobat pro 7 =P
Of course, if firefox 3 didn’t like crashing on me, I would be using it at the moment and wouldn’t have to deal with firefox 2 in the first place. Perhaps then there wouldn’t have been such an issue in dealing with filetypes because there would be an add filetype button! =P