Hello,

Try using the Applications panel of the Options page to change how Firefox handles those particular types of downloads. It sounds like PDF is the place to start:

"3-bar" menu button (or Tools menu) > Options

In the left column, click Applications. Firefox may pause for a few seconds while it loads the list. You should then see a box listing numerous different types of content. In the box above the list, type or paste pdf and Firefox should filter it to

Portable Document Format (PDF)

On the right side, if it says "Save File" change that to "Always Ask"

Any luck?

Now, if that doesn't work:

(1) There may be other content types the site is indicating for the attachments. You can scroll the full list looking for any others that are set to "Save File" and change those.

(2) The file which stores these preferences might have become corrupted. What we usually suggest in that case is as follows:

Open your current Firefox settings (AKA Firefox profile) folder using either

"3-bar" menu button > "?" button > Troubleshooting Information

(menu bar) Help > Troubleshooting Information

type or paste about:support in the address bar and press Enter

In the first table on the page, click the "Show Folder" button. This should launch a new window listing various files and folders in Windows Explorer.

Leaving that window open, switch back to Firefox and Exit, either:

"3-bar" menu button > "power" button

(menu bar) File > Exit

Pause while Firefox finishes its cleanup, then rename mimeTypes.rdf to something like mimeTypes.old.

Start Firefox back up, and it should build a new mimeTypes.rdf file from the Windows registry and plugin data. Normally your PDF viewer will be reset back to the built-one, but you can select Adobe Acrobat if you prefer. See: View and edit PDF files using Firefox’s built-in viewer .

Hope it helps. Thank You.

thank you Shashank , already tried the first option, so will try your 2nd suggestion

Cannot find "Show Folder" in the first table ( Application Basics ) perhaps I am looking in the wrong place ?

I can no longer just print, instead I have to save a file and then print from there.

What kind of documents are they? The first set of steps is directed toward PDFs or other kinds of documents that Firefox may suggest downloading rather than open in a tab.

Cannot find "Show Folder" in the first table ( Application Basics ) perhaps I am looking in the wrong place ?

Actually the button label changed to Open Folder in recent versions. There are a couple of these, and you're looking for the one on the "Profile Folder" row of the table.

Thank you Jscher2000, in my frustration I refreshed and was then given the option I needed but it does look as though it is still saving the files I am printing, so half the issue is resolved. I can print directly at least , just need to work out how to prevent browser saving files as well. Really do not need a mass of date stored on my p.c that I do not need. Thanks again for helping guys !!

Well, anything your browser retrieves from the web is generally saved somewhere unless the site forbids it.

In the case of PDFs, that would usually be:

• Open in Firefox's built-in viewer in a tab => saved in the web cache with pages, images, etc.
• Select Open in Firefox's download dialog => saved in the system TEMP folder
• Select Save in Firefox's download dialog => saved in the Downloads folder or a different folder you selected