How to disable pdf viewer?
Its so irritating when I'm trying to download a mess of files to be uploaded to a new website. I'm using Aurora 19.0a2
I've already looked in Tools > Add-ons.
Chosen solution
by Gingerbread_Man- Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter.
- Press the big button to bypass the warning.
- In the Filter bar, paste pdfjs.disabled
- In the search results, double-click pdfjs.disabled to set its value to true
- Restart Firefox for the changes to take effect.
Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Displays Java applet content, or a placeholder if Java is not installed.
- Shockwave Flash 11.4 r402
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- The Flip4Mac WMV Plugin allows you to view Windows Media content using QuickTime.
- Plugin that detects installed Citrix Online products (visit www.citrixonline.com).
- 5.1.10411.0
- WebEx64 General Plugin Container Version 202
- Microsoft Office for Mac SharePoint Browser Plug-in
- The Google Earth Plugin allows you to view 3D imagery and terrain in your web browser.
- Office Live Update v1.0
- iPhoto6
- Simplifies the uploading of photo files.
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:19.0) Gecko/20121130 Firefox/19.0
More Information
Chosen Solution
- Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter.
- Press the big button to bypass the warning.
- In the Filter bar, paste pdfjs.disabled
- In the search results, double-click pdfjs.disabled to set its value to true
- Restart Firefox for the changes to take effect.
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Question owner
Amazing, thank you! I notice it doesn't popup a window and ask: save or view anymore - even better (I'm hoping - not sure yet). Thank you! ;)
I have found that all one needs to do is to go into tools/options/applications and change "Preview in Firefox" to "Use Adobe Acrobat (in Firefox") and you can easily change back to the previous mode.
I also actually love the Preview in Firefox, it allows you to open links in a Adobe document in a new tab and other sweet things.