--- On Wed, 9/14/11, Benjamin Johnson <obeythepenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Benjamin Johnson <obeythepenguin at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Dillo-dev] how to open links etc To: dillo-dev at dillo.org Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 8:16 PM On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:11:14 -0400, Roger <rogerx.oss at gmail.com> 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.
I agree. I also agree with the Roger about the pain caused by things just opening up on their own with major action required to stop it...... T