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Opening Documents or PDF's

dblace
dblace
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When clicking on a document or PDF in Firefox my Imac always wants to save it first before viewing.

How do I fix this so it will just open for viewing?

When clicking on a document or PDF in Firefox my Imac always wants to save it first before viewing. How do I fix this so it will just open for viewing?

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Firefox has some choices on the Preferences page for whether to Open PDFs directly from the web, ask you, or always save. This is linked to the way the site serves the PDF file, so there are some sites where you may always get asked what you want to do even after changing your setting. More info:

View PDF files using Firefox’s built-in viewer -- try the first option, Open in Firefox

Can you get it working the way you want?