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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:

  1. go to about:config
  2. 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] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It does not fix the bug, i want to save in tmp & use external application like it did until last year

I don't want to have the same behaviour of chromium browsers, otherwise i would use chromium browsers.

Luckily microsoft updated ms edge on linux to save on tmp the files that you want to open, but you don't want to save. It's the only browser left that does that with a simple check in settings and doesn't require big workarounds. Used to be only firefox to do this... pity

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That sounds like browser.download.start_downloads_in_tmp_dir combined with “open with…”. That setting should download to tmp whenever you open it directly in an application. The other setting (browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline) should only be enabled if you want to open PDFs in the browser without downloading them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can't you change that in the folder settings? Changing it to a temp folder?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

But then when I want to save and keep the file, i have to browse to the real downloads directory