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THANK YOU. This behavior has been bothering me since it was introduced but I thought there was no solution
After watching other comments I wonder why some people don't get that this was a bug or at the very least, undocumented behavior outside of the Settings GUI. I had to deal many times with file (4).pdf on my Downloads dir. A BIG thank you, OP.
Yeah, it's the classic "works for me" problem
It does not fix the bug, i want to save in tmp & use external application like it did until last year
I don't want to have the same behaviour of chromium browsers, otherwise i would use chromium browsers.
Luckily microsoft updated ms edge on linux to save on tmp the files that you want to open, but you don't want to save. It's the only browser left that does that with a simple check in settings and doesn't require big workarounds. Used to be only firefox to do this... pity
That sounds like browser.download.start_downloads_in_tmp_dir combined with “open with…”. That setting should download to tmp whenever you open it directly in an application. The other setting (browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline) should only be enabled if you want to open PDFs in the browser without downloading them.
Can't you change that in the folder settings? Changing it to a temp folder?
But then when I want to save and keep the file, i have to browse to the real downloads directory
Good on you for sharing! This behavior has been so infuriating to me
Wish that worked on the android version as well :(
Nice! Thanks for the tip!
Iirc, I had to set that firefox doesn't open everything in the browser but downloads the pdfs to disk. It was in the settings.
I really didn't get the idea why I had to save pdfs manually. To me, it feels weird to not save pdfs automatically but I understand you if you rarely safe a pdf.
You can specify where you want the temp download folder to be fyi. It's in the normal settings. Just make a folder in like C:/firefox temp files and have it dump all that shit in there.
Even with browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline set to false (default), Firefox already opens PDFs instead of downloading them, thanks to this setting:
For what use cases is that needed?
That option did not work for me
For me it still downloads and then opens it in firefox. In the description it clearly says: Choose how Firefox handles the files you download from the web (...). And I don't want it to download the file to my disk in the first place just store it in chache like a regular website.
it doesn't download them for me, unless I explicitly save the PDF that opens
(akhtually it'll always download in order to open it, I just mean it doesn't create a PDF in the downloads directory)
Which firefox version are you on? I'm on 122.0b1 (flatpak beta) and changing these settings just defines what happens after I download the file. Also my download folder is set to ~/Downloads
121.0 stable, .deb from Firefox's ppa
interesting
Wait do you download the files to you /tmp dir? Or do you store the files in the browser cache?
my downloads dir is ~/downloads/ but Firefox doesn't create a file there, so it must use a temp location for the PDF that opens.