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

  • ominouslemon
    531·
    11 months ago

    THANK YOU. This behavior has been bothering me since it was introduced but I thought there was no solution

    • assa123@lemmy.world
      7·
      11 months ago

      After watching other comments I wonder why some people don’t get that this was a bug or at the very least, undocumented behavior outside of the Settings GUI. I had to deal many times with file (4).pdf on my Downloads dir. A BIG thank you, OP.

        • PropaGandalf@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          11 months ago

          I know now why some people may not have this problem. It really depends on the server and if it marks the content-disposition header as attachment forcing the files to be downloaded. I edited my post now so that this is clear.

          • ominouslemon
            1·
            11 months ago

            That makes sense! Thank you for taking the time to dig into it