As mentioned upstream, servers can choose not to let a browser client
render a file, but force a download. That does not mean Firefox has a
bug.
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged = Invalid
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Loic, thank you for your comment. I don't have enough knowledge one way
or the other to comment to that. However, since a direct link has been
provided, have you reviewed if this website allows the user to open PDFs
directly (if that even applies here)?
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Loic, thank you for your comment. Reviewing the official Mozilla
documentation regarding this issue, it doesn't mention anything about
how some websites force downloading a PDF file, which preempts the users
choice regarding PDFs. Hence, would this article want to be updated with
the information
The URL is served as application/octet-stream and not as application/pdf.
That alone would be enough to force a file save as but the site serves this
file also with a content-disposition: attachment header with always forces a
save as window.
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type:
Are you sure this website allows the user to open directly the PDF?
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Title:
PDF Preview in Firefox not honored for specific URL
Matthias Versen, thank you for the clarification. This is now
documented in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Firefox , and submitted
for inclusion into the official Mozilla documentation as per
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/set-how-firefox-handles-different-
file-types/revision/84202 . I'm
On my side, I am forced to download it locally, I can't open it online
(surely because the website wants to save ressources).
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Title:
PDF Preview in Firefox not honored for specific URL
Status in The
Public bug reported:
1) lsb_release -rd
Description:Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release:14.04
2) apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
Installed: 34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Candidate: 34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Version table:
*** 34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 0
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** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #1109420
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1109420
** Also affects: firefox via
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1109420
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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