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Finally found a fix how to stop firefox downloading each PDF to your local drive (connect.mozilla.org)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by PropaGandalf@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Even with browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline set to false (default), Firefox already opens PDFs instead of downloading them, thanks to this setting:

For what use cases is that needed?

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

For me it still downloads and then opens it in firefox. In the description it clearly says: Choose how Firefox handles the files you download from the web (...). And I don't want it to download the file to my disk in the first place just store it in chache like a regular website.

[–] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

That option did not work for me