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My dislike for viewing PDFs inside an Internet browser grows every time a website finds a way to automatically bypass the PDF Download add-on that I have installed for Firefox and loads inside my browser. Don’t get me wrong. I am a big fan of the PDF format and use it whenever I can — but I just don’t like to use it in a way that affects the usability of my browser. I prefer to download the PDFs to my desktop and open them at a time of my choosing without my browser going AWOL.
The solution I’ve found is to just disassociate Firefox with any of the PDF viewers that I have installed, so that when it comes across a PDF on the web, it has no choice but to prompt me to save it to my desktop. To stop PDFs from loading up in your Firefox browser, follow these simple steps:
- Go to the “Tools -> Options” menu
- Select the “Contents” tab
- Click on the “Manage” button in the “File Types” section
- Enter “pdf” in the “Search” box
- Select “Change Action…”
- Change the current selection to “Save them on my computer” and click OK
The next time you click on a link to a PDF document Firefox should prompt you to download it to your desktop.
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Good one, I had to do the same on my machine, it’s annoying to have all PDF files you’re working with loaded in Firefox.
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