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Firefox gives “creating PDF” notification when trying to load a web page into iBooks but does not do so.

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In some cases when I try to “share with” a web page into iBooks I get a box saying “creating PDF” but the page does not appear in iBooks.

I cannot find any stored PDF on my 1st Gen iPad Pro running iOS 14.3 (this has been an ongoing problem in Firefox for a long time). It’s unpredictable when this happens. Sometimes when trying to download a scientific paper or article as displayed this will happen, but if the page has a “download PDF” it will display as a PDF and then (sometimes) I can share it with iBooks.

If I open the page in Safari then I can usually load it into iBooks directly.

I’m also at a loss as to how to move a PDF I’ve downloaded into files (either on the iPad or into a cloud server) into iBooks as the icon for iBooks in the “share with” sunscreen is either missing or doesn’t work. Also, depending on what I’m doing, the “share with” icon sequence changes. I moved the iBooks icon to the left as I use it a lot, but sometimes it moves back to the right so I have to scroll to find it, and when it does so it usually gives the above “creating PDF” message and then failed to load the document into iBooks. If the iBooks icon appears 2nd on the list in “share with” it usually works.

In some cases when I try to “share with” a web page into iBooks I get a box saying “creating PDF” but the page does not appear in iBooks. I cannot find any stored PDF on my 1st Gen iPad Pro running iOS 14.3 (this has been an ongoing problem in Firefox for a long time). It’s unpredictable when this happens. Sometimes when trying to download a scientific paper or article as displayed this will happen, but if the page has a “download PDF” it will display as a PDF and then (sometimes) I can share it with iBooks. If I open the page in Safari then I can usually load it into iBooks directly. I’m also at a loss as to how to move a PDF I’ve downloaded into files (either on the iPad or into a cloud server) into iBooks as the icon for iBooks in the “share with” sunscreen is either missing or doesn’t work. Also, depending on what I’m doing, the “share with” icon sequence changes. I moved the iBooks icon to the left as I use it a lot, but sometimes it moves back to the right so I have to scroll to find it, and when it does so it usually gives the above “creating PDF” message and then failed to load the document into iBooks. If the iBooks icon appears 2nd on the list in “share with” it usually works.