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Print from google docs with "always open pdf in firefox"

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I've told Firefox to always open PDFs in Firefox. Google Docs/Sheets always generates a PDF when told to print. These PDFs are not opening in Firefox. If I set Firefox to 'always ask', I receive the prompt for what to do with the PDF from Google, and here I can open it in Preview (I am on Mac) or tell it to open in Firefox and it will open a new tab and display the PDF. But if Firefox is told to always open the PDF itself, then no new tab opens with the PDF, and the PDF doesn't load in the existing tab either. Is there a way to have Firefox always open up PDFs -and- have the Google generated PDF open properly?

If it helps, I am on MacOS Big Sur 11.2, but have seen this with previous versions of the OS. Firefox is up to date (85.0.2), but I've also seen this happen with earlier versions of Firefox. I have tried this with all extensions off as well as the usual extensions on. Google is generating the PDF using pdf.js, but nothing seems to be blocking the javascript or generating any errors, I checked in the developer tools (console and networking and debugger).

I've told Firefox to always open PDFs in Firefox. Google Docs/Sheets always generates a PDF when told to print. These PDFs are not opening in Firefox. If I set Firefox to 'always ask', I receive the prompt for what to do with the PDF from Google, and here I can open it in Preview (I am on Mac) or tell it to open in Firefox and it will open a new tab and display the PDF. But if Firefox is told to always open the PDF itself, then no new tab opens with the PDF, and the PDF doesn't load in the existing tab either. Is there a way to have Firefox always open up PDFs -and- have the Google generated PDF open properly? If it helps, I am on MacOS Big Sur 11.2, but have seen this with previous versions of the OS. Firefox is up to date (85.0.2), but I've also seen this happen with earlier versions of Firefox. I have tried this with all extensions off as well as the usual extensions on. Google is generating the PDF using pdf.js, but nothing seems to be blocking the javascript or generating any errors, I checked in the developer tools (console and networking and debugger).