Closed Bug 1759835 Opened 3 years ago Closed 3 years ago

PDFs open in Firefox instead of download

Categories

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Firefox 98
Desktop
Windows 7
defect

Tracking

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RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: danutpopa831, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open a link such as https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Special:DownloadAsPdf&page=C%2B%2B_Programming%2FAll_Chapters&action=show-download-screen, press the Download button

Actual results:

The PDF opens in Firefox

Expected results:

The PDF should downloaded in Firefox

The PDF should downloaded in Firefox

Firefox should open a dialog where you can download the PDF

Component: Untriaged → File Handling
OS: Unspecified → Windows 7
Hardware: Unspecified → Desktop

Hi Stefan,

You can go to about:preferences#general and scroll down to the Applications section, then set the Action for PDFs on Always Ask/Save File that way the pdf files won't be automatically opened in Firefox.

(In reply to Peter_M from comment #4)

You can go to about:preferences#general and scroll down to the Applications section, then set the Action for PDFs on Always Ask/Save File that way the pdf files won't be automatically opened in Firefox.

Thanks for this. Marking as FIXED since this what we'll need to do to avoid opening PDFs directly in Firefox. Please feel free to re-open if needed.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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