{"id":1888,"date":"2008-03-31T10:18:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T17:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2008-03-31T10:18:33","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T17:18:33","slug":"arxiv-pdf-mime-fix-for-firefox-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/03\/31\/arxiv-pdf-mime-fix-for-firefox-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"ArXiv PDF Mime Fix for Firefox 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of my switching to a Mac, I’ve started using Firefox (one reason being that I’m investigating using Zotero<\/a> for grabbing bibliographic citations from the web.) However, an annoying problem I encounter was when using Firefox and downloading pdfs from the arXiv<\/a>. The problem was that Firefox failed to recognize the files as pdf files and thinks the pdf for arxiv XXXX.YYYY was a file of type YYYY. Note that this isn’t just a problem of downloading any old pdf, but specifically pdfs from the arxiv. I’ve now figure out how to fix this.
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\nThe problem, as was hinted at by a commenter was with the mime types. To fix this I proceeded as follows. <\/p>\n

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  1. Download and install the Firefox plugin MIME Edit (I have version 0.60.)<\/li>\n
  2. After restarting Firefox, you can now edit Mime types by going to Tools->MIME Edit…<\/li>\n
  3. Upon tabbing to edit in the MIME Edit Preferences window, you should delete any “application\/pdf” file types, and then recreate one with MIME Type “application\/pdf” and extension “pdf”. You should then select what to do with this file type.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As part of my switching to a Mac, I’ve started using Firefox (one reason being that I’m investigating using Zotero for grabbing bibliographic citations from the web.) However, an annoying problem I encounter was when using Firefox and downloading pdfs from the arXiv. The problem was that Firefox failed to recognize the files as pdf … <\/p>\n

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