565657 - Won't download PDF files

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[William Bowles]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

When I try to download/open a pdf, first a window opens but not to save the file, instead it wants me to open one! It works in Safari, so I know it's not my machine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on a link to a pdf file
2. Firefox should download the file
Actual Results:  
a window opens but it's for opening a file, not saving one. Clicking on cancel leaves me with a blank page with the url to the file in the menu bar.

Expected Results:  
a pdf file on my Mac

either opened the pdf in a firefox window or the download window should open and the file saved to disk.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

Adobe does not make a Firefox Adobe Reader plugin for embedding pdfs in a Firefox window. You should get a dialog that looks similar to http://www.askdavetaylor.com/0-blog-pics/firefox-save-ical-ics-file.png and selecting save will save the file. If you don't get that dialog then check the pdf setting in Firefox > prefs > applications.

Comment 2

[William Bowles]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Adobe does not make a Firefox Adobe Reader plugin for embedding pdfs in a
> Firefox window. You should get a dialog that looks similar to
> http://www.askdavetaylor.com/0-blog-pics/firefox-save-ical-ics-file.png and
> selecting save will save the file. If you don't get that dialog then check the
> pdf setting in Firefox > prefs > applications.

Ok, changed the settings. Thanks

Bill

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan]

Please use the resources at http://support.mozilla.com before opening bugs.