How to open pdf in firefox without downloading?

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kulimer

macrumors 6502

Original poster

• Sep 6, 2012

• #1

I want to view pdf in Firefox without actually downloading it, just like how windows does it, simple right?

But FF won't let me do it.

I've tried the add-on: PDF Viewer. The quality is of some pdf's are so bad.

So, I've stopped trying, hope someone could point to me the right one.

 

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m.demian

macrumors member

• Sep 6, 2012

• #2

There's an "Adobe Acrobat" addon which I think is the official Adobe PDF plugin for Firefox.

 

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midtownhd

macrumors member

• Sep 6, 2012

• #3

If you really want that feature, use Chrome.

 

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jbzcar

macrumors regular

• Sep 6, 2012

• #4

midtownhd said:

If you really want that feature, use Chrome.

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Stupid answer, it works fine in Firefox.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pdfjs/

 

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kulimer

macrumors 6502

Original poster

• Sep 12, 2012

• #5

jbzcar said:

Stupid answer, it works fine in Firefox.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pdfjs/

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I tried pdfjs prior to posting, this add-on is not consistent. Some pdf turns out with words out of shape, and Greek symbols as a square.

 

And1ss

macrumors 6502a

• Sep 12, 2012

• #6

I'm not sure this is possible anymore on Firefox. I remember back when firefox 4 came out, the open pdf extension that was widely used stopped working. Ever since then, pdf opening on firefox was wishy washy, which is why i stopped using it and switched to chrome+safari.