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Firefox for Android. File download as .zip will not auto unzip.

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Have searched to convert .zip to .pdf at Play Store and Mozilla.

Have searched to convert .zip to .pdf at Play Store and Mozilla.

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File download as .zip will not auto unzip.

Zip is a compression format. There's dedicated software to compress files in zip format, and also to unpack them. Firefox is a web browser and doesn't do zip/unzip.

Have searched to convert .zip to .pdf

You cannot 'convert' a zip file to pdf. It's like comparing apples and oranges. You'd need to unpack the zip file with software capable of doing that to restore the original pdf.

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File download as .zip will not auto unzip.

Zip is a compression format. There's dedicated software to compress files in zip format, and also to unpack them. Firefox is a web browser and doesn't do zip/unzip.

Have searched to convert .zip to .pdf

You cannot 'convert' a zip file to pdf. It's like comparing apples and oranges. You'd need to unpack the zip file with software capable of doing that to restore the original pdf.