1837257 - permit disabling pdf.js, effectively restoring previous download behaviour.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(GeckoView :: PDF Viewer, enhancement)

Description

[charles]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 13; Mobile; rv:109.0) Gecko/113.0 Firefox/113.0

Steps to reproduce:

Clicked a scripted page component that delivered a pdf file

Actual results:

The app automatically opens the pdf in Firefox's pdf viewer, without offering me the option to either

• download the file (IE ot use Firefox as a pdf viewer)
• open the file in Firefox

Expected results:

As a user who downloads many many pdfs, sometimes via sites that use script to stream the files I want to start multiple parralel downloads and NOT have the files display in firefox. I should have been offered a download option before it opened automatically the pdf viewer.

Suggest a menu setting that turns on asking this question or performing current behaviour.

Comment 1

[Kevin Cox [@kevincox:matrix.org]]

An option to immediately open in another app would also be useful. Download them open isn't too annoying but it be nice to make this one-click.

Comment 2

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

This use case is supported by long pressing and then selecting "Download link".