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vetboy replied 15 gaƒoƒo siwo va yi
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I have recently purchased a new PC that is running on Windows 11. In the settings menu - downloads, I have set up Firefox to "always ask" when there is PDF document. I usually prefer to just view the document so I click on open the file using Firefox. When I do that, the PDF opens and is saved to my downloads at the same time. I do not have this problem with my other devices. Not sure what is going on. I tried the "open in Firefox" setting but I get the same result.

I have recently purchased a new PC that is running on Windows 11. In the settings menu - downloads, I have set up Firefox to "always ask" when there is PDF document. I usually prefer to just view the document so I click on open the file using Firefox. When I do that, the PDF opens and is saved to my downloads at the same time. I do not have this problem with my other devices. Not sure what is going on. I tried the "open in Firefox" setting but I get the same result.

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vetboy
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After struggling with this for a couple of days, I managed to find a solution previously contributed by jscher2000. In about:config, type or paste browser.download.start_downloads_in_tmp_dir and set it from false to true. That downloads the PDF file to the temp folder instead of downloads. For some reason, Firefox in my other devices already had the setting configured to download to the temp directory but not this one.

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