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Finally found a fix how to stop firefox downloading each PDF to your local drive (connect.mozilla.org)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey guys

Today I got so annyed by firefox's default behaviour of downloading each and every PDF file to my disk that I went searching for a solution until I had the problem fixed. And it seems like I have finally found it. I have linked the solution but here is the fix in short:

go to about:config
change browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline to true

Thank you jscher2000 for the solution!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9785046

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Because you don't always want to permanently save to the drive the PDFs you find on the internet, often you just need to skim them and that's it, just like a webpage