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« on: February 06, 2012, 02:44:48 AM »

For a while now I had been running version 8 Mozilla Firefox. 
When I opened a link to a PDF document all is fine except the Edit> Find>  function within the Firefox PDF plugin won't allow me to type a search string.  Today I did a full update and now have Firefox version 10.  The Find/search string entry flaw is still there.  I can cut and paste text to search but not directly type in search text.
As a temporary fix I've modified the Application / Content type> PDF to use Okular. 

This works fine but I was wondering if anyone knows of a fix for the above mentioned Mozplugger 1.14.3 problem. (Plugin last updated 11/8/2011 ) 

Config file appears to be /etc/mozpluggerrc

Thanks for your thoughts,
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« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2012, 05:46:59 AM »

If you are opening the document in the browser, can you use the browser's find tool?
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« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2012, 09:19:40 AM »

For a while now I had been running version 8 Mozilla Firefox. 
When I opened a link to a PDF document all is fine except the Edit> Find>  function within the Firefox PDF plugin won't allow me to type a search string.  Today I did a full update and now have Firefox version 10.  The Find/search string entry flaw is still there.  I can cut and paste text to search but not directly type in search text.
As a temporary fix I've modified the Application / Content type> PDF to use Okular. 

This works fine but I was wondering if anyone knows of a fix for the above mentioned Mozplugger 1.14.3 problem. (Plugin last updated 11/8/2011 ) 

Config file appears to be /etc/mozpluggerrc

Thanks for your thoughts,
Cages
I can confirm this problem. the browser's "find" function works but okular's "find" function will not accept keyboard input. (but you can paste text into it) This appears to only happen when okular is invoked in Firefox. When opening a PDF file in okular from the desktop/dolphin, "find" works.
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« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2012, 03:50:35 AM »

If you are opening the document in the browser, can you use the browser's find tool?
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When using Mozplugger 1.14.3  - I can type into the browser Find tool but it doesn't search the pdf document.  If I use the plugin Find tool then I can't type search test.
Find tool only works if I set the browser setting> Application / Content type> PDF to use Okular
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