1406126 - PDF does not show when opening a link to pdf

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1191591

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect, P3)

Description

[Kyle Lahnakoski [:ekyle]]

Using version 57.0b5, but other versions have this same problem:

Clicking on a link to a pdf file does not show the pdf file, rather it is downloaded and put in the downloaded files. I must then click on the download arrow, click on the downloaded file, and then the pdf shows in a new tab, leaving the original tab empty.

https://github.com/armenzg/firefox-code-coverage-frontend/raw/7b67f2e948de94b7f837ba9a7c57a31e810d9fe7/docs/Prototype%20Instructions.pdf

Please steam line this process. Let Firefox show the content of the pdf links that are clicked. I would not mind if the pdf file is also added to downloads at the same time.


Thank you

Comment 1

[Kyle Lahnakoski [:ekyle]]

Attachment: settings

As per https://superuser.com/questions/509827/pdf-files-are-opening-in-firefox-undesiredly . I do believe my settings are correct:

Comment 2

[Brendan Dahl [:bdahl]]

It looks like that pdf has content-type of attachment. Previously, that would pop up a dialog asking you to save, but now it appears to just download automatically. I'm not sure if this change was intentional and I'll have to look into it more. 

As a temporary fix you can use this addon:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/display-inline/?src=api

Comment 3

[Brendan Dahl [:bdahl]]

*content-disposition

Comment 4

[Brendan Dahl [:bdahl]]

While not what you're requesting in this bug, I found the regression and opened bug 1407846.

Comment 5

[Kenan]

Works for me,
mozregression:
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=e35f1b39ddf0fd159ad9edceb6662ad5ed527d4e&tochange=8f68705097b4bf88cd61b43b14401cde98ac75b6

Seems to be a dupe of 1191591