PDF 102.0 // Open with another programm instead of downloading

[Jade]

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!

[jscher2000 · Accepted solution]

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.

[Jade]

Hi jscher,

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

[Kryten]

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.

[sara]

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.

[jscher2000]

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@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.

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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.

[sara]

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