This web log is my online notebook for software tips and hacks to make my life and hopefully that of someone else just a little bit easy. Should you find any mistakes or have any useful suggestions, please do not hesitate to write to me. Peace! Pavan Ghatty
Friday, August 6, 2010
Little victory
I have a linux box running on openSUSE 11.1 in my office. Firefox on the machine was not configured to open pdf files in the browser and after years of downloading files just to view them I found a solution. All I needed to do was to put this plugin called nppdf.so in the folder ~/.mozilla/plugins/. Now I couldn't find a single working link that would let me download the plugin. Frustrated, I did a simple "find / -name nppdf.so" on my terminal and found it somewhere in the Realplayer folder. Copied it and voila! The sweetest part was that the whole process took ~2mins. Geee...
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