Browsers: Downloading problems in IE8
Downloading problems in IE8
by talltom79 - 11/3/09 11:04 AMI have IE8 on Windows XP. I find that if I left click to download a file such as a pdf or doc file, the browser just hangs for ages and finally displays a page saying that it could not open the link. But if I right click and choose "save target as" etc, I can download pdf's and doc's fine and open them directly. I would prefer it if sometimes I could just left click a file and have it open directly in the browser like it does on other computers that I use. How do I make it do that?
I'm not sure the problem is specific to IE8; I've had the problem for ages on the computer with earlier versions of IE.
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by MarkFlax
- 11/4/09 4:07 AM
In reply to: Downloading problems in IE8 by talltom79
you don't have an Adobe PDF Reader installed as a plugin for IE8.
If you did then I assume that left clicking a PDF file in IE would then open the PDF file within the browser. See if the guidance in the link below works for you;
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/InternetExplorer/thread/c21b82a0-8aad-45bd-9603-3b6a387f5ad6
I'm not sure about .doc document files. I know IE can display other office files like Excel, but I am not sure it is a commonly done thing. Right clicking .doc files and saving to your hard disk sounds about right to me.
Mark
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