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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Unless your browser is poopy, it should just open the pdf in the browser without saving it as a file.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (5 children)

When in reality, the browser just downloads it, then opens it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How else should it even be possible? Obviously every browser needs to download it and 100 % too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It could put it in a temporary cache that's deleted when you close it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

So it did safe the file...?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah smarty pants obviously it has to download the data, but by default it shouldnt permanently store it as a file in your download folder. Files like this should go into a tmp file or only into RAM.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'd check if I was you. I think both Chrome and Firefox keep it in downloads folder

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yes, obviously. That's what we have a problem with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Idk about default Firefox, but both Fennec on Android and Librewolf on Desktop do not permanently save it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So like a web page.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Except a webpage isn't exactly stored on the computer. JS and CSS files are cached. Images also, but not HTML. So no, not like a web page.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

By default any HTTP response is cached, including HTML.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Downloads it? Yes. Save as a file? No, atleast not permanently

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, usually in downloads folder for Firefox. I think Chrome is the same.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It has to download any content it shows you, whether that's a web page, pdf, or anything else. It can't just magically know what to display without downloading it. Whether it stores it permanently is another question. Most browsers don't do this. If yours does there's probably a setting for that, or it's just a really bad browser.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Firefox mobile downloads it first, then you have to tap "open".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

MJ PDF is better than pdf.js.