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Firefox wants to save rather than display PDF's

27 Aug 2011 14:44:41 PDT

My Firefox 5 just developed an odd habit. When I click on any link intended to open a PDF document, I get instead a &quo ...

29 Aug 2011 04:20:36 PDT

is Firefox's PDF reader add-on enabled or disabled?

I had a similar problem the other day and when I checked I fo ...

29 Aug 2011 06:12:08 PDT

I did the Adobe re-install that John recommended (which also entailed an upgrade from 9.4 to 10.1). It made no differenc ...

29 Aug 2011 11:44:47 PDT

If you have Firefox 4 or upwards, click the Firefox button top left of the browser window then select Add-ons.

Fi ...

29 Aug 2011 14:22:15 PDT

I found the add-ons section. Adobe Reader 10 was already enabled. I disabled it then re-enabled it. No change.

NT ...

30 Aug 2011 03:21:26 PDT

to Save or Run?

Or do you only get the option to Save?

If you 'only' get the option to save, then h ...

30 Aug 2011 05:58:23 PDT

Do you get the option to Save or Run?Or do you only get the option to Save?

My Download options are Show the Down ...

30 Aug 2011 13:59:13 PDT

Hi NT.

Well, I'm stumped. Same settings as me but I don't get an Adobe Save As dialog whenever I click on a PDF l ...

30 Aug 2011 15:08:33 PDT

As a test, I Googled "articles pdf". Every link to a pdf article did the same thing.
My other two browsers ...

31 Aug 2011 04:14:09 PDT

I could have done that, Google "Articles PDF" !

01 Sep 2011 17:37:14 PDT

OK, now I know how my setting got changed, and it appears to be because of a change in Firefox.

I download ...

05 Jan 2012 04:53:54 PST

Click Firefox > Preferences > Applications > Content file: PDF file ; Action --> click on the onglet and swi ...

02 Sep 2011 04:47:19 PDT

I've continued from here in reply to your

28 Aug 2011 14:54:37 PDT