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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug...

I also have this problem. It's VERY frustrating, because I use the addon Auto-fill forms on multiple sites and i can't choose an auto-selection on select dropdowns because I can't get a context menu on them. I don't like having to find some other way to bypass this. Having a context menu on it would make sense, you should be able to do the same things to a select input as a text input, like copy or paste.

Here's an update, in order / response to the replies:

@Thomas - Uninstalling Reader / installing Foxit Reader didn't help. They're both external viewers, which works regardless of the software. It's integrated viewing in the browser I'm trying to accomplish, which used to work when reader was installed. NB: I'm actually using the full version of Acrobat 8 Pro as my PDF viewer, not Reader. This used to integrate into fx, and the PDFs would just display inside the page.

@bugmenot - The extension almost worked, but gave this error when trying to convert the PDF to HTML: "An error occured during the download of the PDF file. The file does not exist, or there was a problem during the download process." Sounds like a caught exception thrown by the error I posted in my OP. I didn't try the second link you gave, as my external PDF viewer (Acrobat 8 Professional) works fine.

So basically, I can download and view PDFs just fine in any external viewer, it's opening them inside of the browser window that is (currently) impossible.

thanks

You could try this pdf extension that allows you to convert a pdf to a normal webpage - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire...
In addition to Foxit, there is http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/s... both of which allow you to set them as the viewer of pdf files automatically when clicking them in Firefox. They are external viewers though, so hopefully the extension does what you want without Adobe.

Sorry I was unclear.

Here's MY setup:

Windows Vista Ultimate (6.0, build 6001)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Adobe CS3 Master Collection (which includes Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional [8.1.2])

The Mac I was referencing was my professor's Mac (which I assume he uses to save the PDFs). I have no idea what the version is.

You should probably try fully uninstalling adobe acrobat reader on windows, and instead installing foxit's reader. See if that helps.

Situation just got fixed

That is an interesting idea. We could possibly add an option to do mpg or mgp at the beginning. I'll talk with the others about this.

Perhaps for now I could do something like, @mymm mpg miles price gallon

so i could name my own format

We'll have to think about this one, but initially my reaction is that we won't change it. I have a feeling there would be a lot of users confused if we changed it out of the blue.

I am a new iPhone user and was very disappointed that this function is not available. Is there a paid software application that can do this?

hi all,
some thoughts on this:

- Steph's idea seems to be more on having a localized interface than on having a "multilingual community". And, as Chuck and others mention, a localized interface is key for third-party companies that want to provide a "getsatisfaction" experience on their non-english sites. Pointing users from a, say, Spanish product interface to an English one is a no-go (even more when the English site is supposed to be the one where users would go in order to get support with technical issues). That is the main reason I don't consider GetSatisfaction as an option at this moment.

- once a localized interface is available, the real issue becomes the quality and availability of the support for each language. And that, IMHO, is something that does not fall under the getsatisfaction product/team, but more on the third-party company using the getsatisfaction platform. While the getsatisfaction team would provide tools/features (like the "translate this question" one mentioned before), there would still be some language-specific questions that would demand a native to provide an answer/solution on behalf of the product using the getsatisfaction platform.

- from my comment above, thus, I would suggest the getsatisfaction team to create a "localization & internationalization" section, where users interested in this subject could provide ideas and feedback about features/tools that would make it easier to create their own localized support sites.

- unfortunately, from my experience, it is hard to create a true multilingual site, where questions and answers get accurately translated only by the community. Third-party companies using the getsatisfaction platform would still need to offer local-language support (which could be covered by, ideally, customer care reps --employees or contractors--, or, depending on each case, by power users willing to help other users). It's very unlikely that companies wanting to offer localized support, using the getsatisfaction solution or their own, will ever be able to avoid the a) translation costs, b) need for local support reps, and c) an internationalization/localization team (or, at the very least, a l10n/i18n project manager).

my 2 € cents :-)

It's a total ripoff

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by the end of the year

No, I had issues with mine as well, so I called support. It turns out it works fine, just requires a few minutes and a log out - log in.

Thomas, Thanks for the quick replay.

No matter what encoding I choose in Options->Content->Fonts->Advanced it defaults to UTF-8, every time I reload page or restart FF3. The only solution is to go to View->Character Encoding and then force it to ISO-8859-1 for each page I’m viewing.

With ISO-8859-1 apostrophes are displayed correctly. :-) But I still got problem with “&” and “% “.

However, if I choose NOT to allow pages to choose their own fonts, set my font to Arial and use ISO-8859-1 encoding problem simply disappears.

Thanks!

I don't care, and yes you should, those were posted on your account not by you but by someone with your password, so you should definitely change it. – Thomas, on October 07, 2008 20:55