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Support viewing PDFs in Firefox for Android

musician
New member
‎05-15-2022 09:21 AM
Status: Delivered

Hey there.

I'm using Mozilla in Android. Herein is my suggestion: I would love to have an PDF-preview without downloading the file. To have the option to download from preview would be really usefull.

Situation: is this the file i'm searching for? -Yes? -Ok, download it.

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HdInfAutre
Strollin' around
‎03-08-2022 03:06 AM
‎03-08-2022 03:06 AM

Support for viewing a pdf in firefox android

Hi

Everything is in the title, pdf's are visible on a desktop not on a smartphone https://joom41test.88h.ovh/index.php/mon-1er-article

regards

Status changed to: New idea
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager
‎05-15-2022 06:17 PM
‎05-15-2022 06:17 PM

Thanks for submitting an idea to the Mozilla Connect community! Your idea is now open to votes (aka kudos) and comments.

maxso216
Strollin' around
‎05-16-2022 04:57 AM
‎05-16-2022 04:57 AM

Yes this feature is useful!

I don't know why firefox on mobile has no such feature, it requires external app to open it.

rms
New member
‎05-16-2022 03:12 PM
‎05-16-2022 03:12 PM

Yeah this would be a great feature.

Ansar99
Making moves
‎08-13-2022 05:44 AM
‎08-13-2022 05:44 AM

This is a great feature love to have this feature.

velerma
Making moves
‎08-15-2022 03:52 AM
‎08-15-2022 03:52 AM

That's a standard feature on iOS, I don't know if Android is not as advanced or Mozilla just didn't add that feature.

Status changed to: In development
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager
‎12-01-2022 08:24 AM
‎12-01-2022 08:24 AM

Hey all,

Here with some exciting news...

This feature is being worked on and initial experimental support is in Nightly behind the pdfjs.disabled pref. Feel free to try it out and stay tuned for more updates 😀

-The Community Team

Status changed to: Delivered
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager
‎03-15-2023 04:27 PM
‎03-15-2023 04:27 PM

Great job all around! This is now available in Firefox 111—check it out.

Looking forward to continuing to collaborate with you all here on Connect 🙌

js2
Making moves
‎03-28-2023 03:32 AM
‎03-28-2023 03:32 AM

This is a very good feature, making it much easier to preview PDFs.

However, it makes it significantly harder to download them. Now you have to click four times to download a PDF, navigating through several different menus (one of which is the "Share" menu for some reason). This is a significant problem if you already know that you have the correct PDF.

Please consider adding a button to download the PDF directly to the preview, not hidden behind several menus; Firefox desktop has this feature, so why not mobile?

Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager
‎03-28-2023 06:15 AM
‎03-28-2023 06:15 AM

Thanks for this feedback, @js2. Will share it with our teams.

Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager
‎04-06-2023 06:31 AM
‎04-06-2023 06:31 AM

Hey @js2 ... good news, just heard back from the team that they are working on adding a button.

marco
Employee
Employee
‎05-22-2023 01:28 AM
‎05-22-2023 01:28 AM

We have added a button to download PDFs in the latest Firefox release.

itme_580
Making moves
‎06-21-2023 09:26 AM
‎06-21-2023 09:26 AM

This is a good feature.

Wouldn't it be better if before it there was a menu letting us choose whether we wanted to open or download the pdf file?

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