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PDF handling - never open PDFs

dementeddigital — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 19:23:01 GMT

I never want to use Firefox to view a PDF. Ever. I always want them to save or ask me (to which I will answer "save")

I've set the settings, general, applications, PDF to "save file" and that worked perfectly for years. Now I open a page like this:

https://semtech.my.salesforce.com/sfc/p/E0000000JelG/a/2R000000Un7F/yT.fKdAr9ZAo3cJLc4F2cBdUsMftpT2vsOICP7NmvMo

and it opens the PDF. I've tried going into about:config and setting pdfjs.disabled to true, but that doesn't seem to have helped. How can I completely disable Firefox's PDF viewer? A browser isn't a PDF viewer and a PDF viewer isn't a browser.

Thanks.

Re: PDF handling - never open PDFs

jscher2000 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 22:39:29 GMT

As far as I can tell, that link opens an HTML viewer showing a sequence of page images. Is the problem when you use the overlaid "Download" or "Download as PDF" links that you don't get the usual dialog, but instead you get the PDF opening in a new tab?

Re: PDF handling - never open PDFs

dementeddigital — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 23:56:49 GMT

Thank you for looking at that. The issue is the PDF opening in the new tab.

Re: PDF handling - never open PDFs

jscher2000 — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 04:46:37 GMT

Hmm, that's strange. Does Firefox add the PDF to the Downloads list (the list that drops from the Downloads button) as usual, or is Firefox handling it as web content (i.e., like a web page)?

Re: PDF handling - never open PDFs

Ronald6279 — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 18:36:00 GMT

same goes for Thunderbid IMO