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

  • ares35@kbin.social
    22·
    11 months ago

    NONE of the files i tested it on triggered the download prompt, populated the download status of the browser, or appeared in my default downloads location during their ‘viewing’ or after.

    • Humanius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      Great that it seems to work for you, but I’ve been experiencing this bug for months now if not longer.
      I made the changes OP suggested, and now it seems to work correctly.