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PDF 102.0 // Open with another programm instead of downloading

Jade — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 11:36:03 GMT

The latest update to Mozilla 102.0 brings the problem why I do not like to use Google Chrome:

Even though it is possible to choose how to behave when opening a PDF in the browser in the first place, after opening in Firefox it is no longer possible to choose via the file button if I want to save the file or just open it with another programm.

Please change this to how it was before.

Thank you very much!

Re: PDF 102.0 // Open with another programm instead of downloading

jscher2000 — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 16:10:37 GMT

Hi Jade, you might want to submit this under the "Ideas" section; this "Discussion" section isn't part of the new idea flow.

Just to clarify for anyone reading, before Firefox 98, the Download button in the built-in PDF viewer popped up the Download dialog with a choice to either "Open with [relevant application]" or "Save". Now, the button is only a "Save As" button and does not offer the choice to open directly.

Re: PDF 102.0 // Open with another programm instead of downloading

Jade — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 19:25:53 GMT

Hi jscher,

Thanks for the correction. That's what I wanted to say ☺️

Re: PDF 102.0 // Open with another programm instead of downloading

sara — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:45:40 GMT

Hi Jade and jscher2000,

it's not a "new idea" to criticize the relatively new function, that all PDFs opened in Firefox end up saved on the computer.

I have tried every setting I can find and think of, but to no avail: no matter what, every clicked PDF in Firefox will be locally saved. PLEASE undo this function again, as it was not so all these years before.

Thank you.

Re: PDF 102.0 // Open with another programm instead of downloading

jscher2000 — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 17:07:15 GMT

@sara wrote:
Hi Jade and jscher2000,
it's not a "new idea" to criticize the relatively new function, that all PDFs opened in Firefox end up saved on the computer.
I have tried every setting I can find and think of, but to no avail: no matter what, every clicked PDF in Firefox will be locally saved. PLEASE undo this function again, as it was not so all these years before.
Thank you.

Hi Sara, that is a different issue. Could you look at my two long replies on Mozilla Support here (scroll down past the solution part to the full discussion):

https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1387228

They describe what changed in Firefox 98 and how to adjust newly added options to get PDFs to save where you want them to save.

Re: PDF 102.0 // Open with another programm instead of downloading

sara — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 16:31:51 GMT

Thank you very much, jscher2000, I'll look it up.

Re: PDF 102.0 // Open with another programm instead of downloading

Kryten — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 10:01:11 GMT

The new update has screwed the downloading of .pdfs, now Firefox wants to open them in the browser and I want it to open in my ,pdf reader. Can you undo the "enforced" feature.