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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] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

it isn't in right in firefox's settings -> general -> under 'files and applications' ??

'open in firefox' (what you want), vs 'always ask', 'always save' (download) or 'open in default application' (such as adobe reader). actions are configurable for many file types.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago

I believe even if you choose “Open in Firefox”, it will still download the PDF to the default download directory before opening it inside a Firefox tab. The behavior that OP describes above seems to prevent that downloading (and having the file around in your default download directory).

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