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For FF19 with PDFs, can the yellow "Open With Different Viewer" pop-up bar be disabled?

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jxf011
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Hi all, I really like the built in PDF viewer because search as a I type works with, thanks FF devs!

But ... I get this yellow pop-up with many PDFs I view: This PDF document might not be displayed correctly and a button for Open With Different Viewer

The thing is these PDFs seem fine and I have to close the warning every time.

Is there anyway this pop-up can be disabled or I can set an about:config setting to skip it? I can manually save a PDF or disable FF19's viewer if there's a noticeable problem with the FF19 viewer.

Hi all, I really like the built in PDF viewer because search as a I type works with, thanks FF devs! But ... I get this yellow pop-up with many PDFs I view: This PDF document might not be displayed correctly and a button for Open With Different Viewer The thing is these PDFs seem fine and I have to close the warning every time. Is there anyway this pop-up can be disabled or I can set an about:config setting to skip it? I can manually save a PDF or disable FF19's viewer if there's a noticeable problem with the FF19 viewer.

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user633449
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No. The yellow bar appears when the PDF contains elements Firefox knows it may have problems handling. There is no way to disable it

jxf011
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Ok, since the pop up bar can't be disabled I'll disable the built in PDF viewer. Too bad, I like the search as you type feature with PDFs but this un-disable-able pop-up bar is not user friendly.

cor-el
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You can also look at the latest version of the PDF Viewer (pdfjs) extension to see if that fixes some issues.