Lock way PDFs are opened
Hello everybody, I'm trying to find a way to lock down the way PDFs are shoewed.
I mean, I want them to be opened ALWAYS with an external pdf reader (such as acrobat reader), I've read about lockprefs and mozilla.cfg, but it seems that this setting it's not stored there...
Any help please?
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Tip: If you have a PDF reader other than Adobe Reader installed on your computer, the steps below will still apply, but your PDF reader program name should be listed instead of "Adobe Reader" or "Adobe Acrobat". 1. Open Mozilla Firefox 2. Go to Options. 3. Within the Options window, click Applications 4. Select the Content type you want to adjust. For example, if you want to change how a PDF file opens in Firefox, select Adobe Acrobat Document. 5. In the Action section, change the action for how you want to open the file. If you want to download the PDF files instead of opening them, select Save file. If you want the PDF to open in Adobe Reader instead of in the Firefox browser window, select Use Adobe Reader. OR Best is to [this article]
yes, I know it for sure, but that's not what I mean.
I'm talking about CENTRALLY MANAGE firefox, instead of going on every pc and do this in this "manual" way.
I'm talking about SCRIPTING and CONFIG FILES!
You can set the pdfjs.disabled pref to true on the about:config page to disable the build-in PDF viewer.
You can check the value of the plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types pref on the about:config page and remove the application/pdf part if present or reset the pref to the default via the right-click context menu if you want to display PDF documents in Firefox with another application (i.e. not the built-in PDF Viewer).
See also:
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/view-pdf-files-firefox-without-downloading-them
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/disable-built-pdf-viewer-and-use-another-viewer
// lockPref("pdfjs.disabled", true);