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:
- go to about:config
- change browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline to true
Thank you jscher2000 for the solution!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9785046
For me it still downloads and then opens it in firefox. In the description it clearly says: Choose how Firefox handles the files you download from the web (…). And I don’t want it to download the file to my disk in the first place just store it in chache like a regular website.
it doesn’t download them for me, unless I explicitly save the PDF that opens
like this example.
(akhtually it’ll always download in order to open it, I just mean it doesn’t create a PDF in the downloads directory)
Which firefox version are you on? I’m on 122.0b1 (flatpak beta) and changing these settings just defines what happens after I download the file. Also my download folder is set to ~/Downloads
121.0 stable, .deb from Firefox’s ppa
interesting
Wait do you download the files to you /tmp dir? Or do you store the files in the browser cache?
my downloads dir is
~/downloads/but Firefox doesn’t create a file there, so it must use a temp location for the PDF that opens.