Re: how to open links etc

On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:11:14 -0400, Roger <[email protected]> wrote:

> On the flip, I just love accidentally clicking on a link/URL within  
> Google
> thinking it's going to spawn a new tab with an HTML page, only to  
> find-out
> acroread or epdfview trying to start on my short-of-resources computers.
>
> Half the time, it's nice to see Seamonkey automatically open PDF's, other
> times, it's a pain because I can't do anything until the resource hog
> applications complete after their execution process.  (Oh, including the  
> wait
> for download because I thought it was an HTML page.)
>
> Seems the only middle-of-the-road solution for me, disable the auto-open
> feature for PDF files and use Google "view as HTML" links (if my eye  
> catches them!).
>
> As far as opening other file types such as
> text/diffs/patches/any_thing_else_you_can_think_of, etc., I'm all for it.

Easy solution: ask the user whether to open the file, or just save it to  
disk.

~Benjamin