Anyone know how to get Firefox to display PDFs instead of downloading them?
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Anyone know how to get Firefox to display PDFs instead of downloading them?         


Author: J.J. O'Shea
Date: Sep 17, 2008 05:08

Is there a way? FF 3. I don't see any obvious toggles.

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Re: Anyone know how to get Firefox to display PDFs instead of downloading them?         


Author: Steve W. Jackson
Date: Sep 17, 2008 06:09

In article news7.newsguy.com>,
J.J. O'Shea wrote:
> Is there a way? FF 3. I don't see any obvious toggles.

Check Mozilla's add-on site for one
-- pretty sure I saw one there some
time back and tried it out for a time.
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Steve W. Jackson
Montgomery, Alabama
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Re: Anyone know how to get Firefox to display PDFs instead of downloading them?         


Author: Warren Oates
Date: Sep 17, 2008 06:09

In article news7.newsguy.com>,
J.J. O'Shea wrote:
> Is there a way? FF 3. I don't see any obvious toggles.
>

http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/

I haven't tried it. It took me ages to figure out how to _stop_ the
damned things displaying internally when it used to do it.
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W. Oates
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Re: Anyone know how to get Firefox to display PDFs instead of downloading them?         


Author: J.J. O'Shea
Date: Sep 17, 2008 06:28

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:09:24 -0400, Warren Oates wrote
(in article <03271011$0$5165$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>):
> In article news7.newsguy.com>,
> J.J. O'Shea wrote:
>
>> Is there a way? FF 3. I don't see any obvious toggles.
>>
>
> http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/
>
> I haven't tried it. It took me ages to figure out how to _stop_ the
> damned things displaying internally when it used to do it.
>

Thanks. Will try it. What I want is a way to be able to toggle it on and off,
for when it's more convenient to view the PDF in the browser. Safari won't do
that.

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Re: Anyone know how to get Firefox to display PDFs instead of downloading them?         


Author: Warren Oates
Date: Sep 17, 2008 06:43

In article news7.newsguy.com>,
J.J. O'Shea wrote:
> Thanks. Will try it. What I want is a way to be able to toggle it on and off,
> for when it's more convenient to view the PDF in the browser. Safari won't do
> that.

Can't we just right-click on the link, and "save as ..." or like that? I
seem to remember having to do that.
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W. Oates
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Re: Anyone know how to get Firefox to display PDFs instead of downloading them?         


Author: J.J. O'Shea
Date: Sep 17, 2008 07:09

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:43:00 -0400, Warren Oates wrote
(in article <032717f0$0$5210$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>):
> In article news7.newsguy.com>,
> J.J. O'Shea wrote:
>
>> Thanks. Will try it. What I want is a way to be able to toggle it on and
>> off,
>> for when it's more convenient to view the PDF in the browser. Safari won't
>> do
>> that.
>
> Can't we just right-click on the link, and "save as ..." or like that? I
> seem to remember having to do that.
>

Hmmm... might try that.

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Re: Anyone know how to get Firefox to display PDFs instead of downloading them?         


Author: hrh1818
Date: Sep 17, 2008 07:15

On Sep 17, 7:08 am, J.J. O'Shea wrote:
> Is there a way? FF 3. I don't see any obvious toggles.
>
> --
> email to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com.

FireFox provides control over how it handles PDF documents in
Windows. I don't have Firefox installed on my iMac. But the following
sequence of instructions works with Windows. Try it out and let me
know if it works with OSX.
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