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Previously, I had found a way to get a Mac running Firefox to not choke on recognizing pdfs correctly when downloaded from the arxiv.org. Commenter Dan has tracked down the reason for this and suggested another way to fix this which should be compatible with the latest versions of Firefox:
Update:Thanks, Dan!It seems that the source of this bug is the following problem:
Arxiv.org does not like Macs! :-O
Fortunately, there is an easy work around: Using the UserAgent Switcher extension, you fool arxiv.org into thinking your web-browser is running Windows.
Then the PDF download problem goes away! No MIME type hackery is needed.
The technical reasons for this are explained in this thread:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=3322008
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Another solution is to use aps.arxiv.org instead of arxiv.org. Go figure...
Posted by: Wim | June 17, 2008 1:50 PM