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Finally found a fix how to stop firefox downloading each PDF to your local drive (connect.mozilla.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by PropaGandalf@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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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

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[โ€“] kpw@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Set the default download folder to /tmp. In the rare case you actually will need a file you download later, copy it to a better directory.

[โ€“] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

I still prefer storing the pdf in the browser cache and downloading it manually if I want than to download it directly to /tmp or anywhere else.