Opening PDFs
Hello. Does anyone know how to set up Firefox to open PDFs automatically without this little screen popping up? To me, automatically means to just opens with Adobe, but I still keep getting this screen - which I don’t want. The fewer the steps/clicks I have to do the better. Thanks in advance. Using a Windows 10 Home Edition Desktop Firefox Version 9.0
Ausgewählte Lösung
Yes, but...
Firefox will follow your instructions on the Settings page for Portable Document Format (PDF) -- more info on how to set that in View PDF files in Firefox or choose another viewer -- if two conditions are met:
(1) The server sends Firefox this header:
Content-Type: application/pdf
If the server sends a different content-type, Firefox usually won't match it up with the saved instructions for application/pdf.
(2) The server does NOT send Firefox this header:
Content-Disposition: attachment
This triggers the download dialog Every. Single. Time.
I have an add-on to work around these two problems. You can install it from the Mozilla Add-ons site:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/content-type-fixer/
To activate it, click its Zzzz button on the toolbar to wake it up. That should take care of #1 automatically. To solve #2, click the button again and in the Content-Disposition Override section of the menu, click "Follow my settings (inline)".
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Ausgewählte Lösung
Yes, but...
Firefox will follow your instructions on the Settings page for Portable Document Format (PDF) -- more info on how to set that in View PDF files in Firefox or choose another viewer -- if two conditions are met:
(1) The server sends Firefox this header:
Content-Type: application/pdf
If the server sends a different content-type, Firefox usually won't match it up with the saved instructions for application/pdf.
(2) The server does NOT send Firefox this header:
Content-Disposition: attachment
This triggers the download dialog Every. Single. Time.
I have an add-on to work around these two problems. You can install it from the Mozilla Add-ons site:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/content-type-fixer/
To activate it, click its Zzzz button on the toolbar to wake it up. That should take care of #1 automatically. To solve #2, click the button again and in the Content-Disposition Override section of the menu, click "Follow my settings (inline)".
Jeez - that is genius. It seems strange to me that this is not part of the normal functionality of the browser, but THANK YOU for figuring this workaround out and providing it!