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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Works fine for me, on linux.
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Linux here too. Kubuntu 14.04. Firefox 38.0
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Originally Posted by Glorfindel
Sounds like a problem with ff. Are you selecting 'download' and then opening it from Firefox, or selecting 'open' and letting firefox do its thing?
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I select "open", with a hand-picked program (it defaults to calibre, I have to search for /usr/bin/ebook-viewer, it usually sticks, but sometimes it defaults back to calibre, which is another annoyance).
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
So use
ebook-viewer --detach file.epub
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If I only knew how... With this damned firefox I don't see a way to specify the command line, I can't even find what the default for epub is, unless I know it's called "documento de libro electrónico".
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so your real question is why does firefox not have working stdout itself.
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Ah... I may have an idea for that... but I have to restart firefox (which I had already done before), so I'll post this and come back.
I'm back, and it's fixed. So, it turns out I had started firefox from a terminal (to debug some other problem), but had closed the terminal. Since then, I had restarted firefox several times, but always from firefox itself (disabling/enabling some plugin and clicking on restart now), so it seems firefox remained in a no-valid-stdout state. Now I have closed it and opened it again from the desktop icon, and opening books works fine.
Now the question(s): Why did it work with an AZW3 file? And could the ebook-viewer application switch to "detached" mode automatically if no stdout is found, so that this doesn't happen again?