How do I get PDFs to display in Firefox rather than download? I used something called PDFPlugin on my G5, but that's not Intel compatible. I reluctantly installed the Craprobat Reader (At least its crap if its as slow and laggy as the windows version) thinking it would install a PDF plugin...which, looking at /Library/Internet Plugins, it did, but Firefox refuses to use it. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks
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View PDFs in Firefox?
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I do find acrobat reader 8 is much faster. its UB now
anyway, does this work?
http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/
anyway, does this work?
http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/
ive found this
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/636
Its not as good as pdf in safari but atleast you can view the files
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/636
Its not as good as pdf in safari but atleast you can view the files
getting pdf's to work in firefox was a pain, but you just install that reader thing, and now it works great.
How to get it to work in OmniWeb 5?...I have no clue..
How to get it to work in OmniWeb 5?...I have no clue..
Are you able to get PDFs to show using the Adobe Reader 8 plugin within Firefox 2? I'm on a G4 mini and I cannot get that to work. In fact, the Adobe plugin doesn't show up in Firefox (about: plugins) at all. And to add to that, I can't get the Schubert plugin to work (even after setting Adobe Reader to not handle Internet PDFs and repairing file permissions). What a sad state of affairs.
Update: I cannot even get PDFs to load in-browser in Safari, so I think I have a more complicated situation...
Are you able to get PDFs to show using the Adobe Reader 8 plugin within Firefox 2? I'm on a G4 mini and I cannot get that to work. In fact, the Adobe plugin doesn't show up in Firefox (about: plugins) at all. And to add to that, I can't get the Schubert plugin to work (even after setting Adobe Reader to not handle Internet PDFs and repairing file permissions). What a sad state of affairs.
Update: I cannot even get PDFs to load in-browser in Safari, so I think I have a more complicated situation...
o, i didn't
, i wasn't really care, im getting used to it already, i know when I switched to mac, there will be something i need to accept as change, doesn't really bother me.schubert will affect safari, so u might want to check their website and find a way to restore the settings in safari.
o, i didn't
schubert will affect safari, so u might want to check their website and find a way to restore the settings in safari.
Well, I'll keep trying. I've been on the Mac for a long time (but am mostly a PC user at work... until my Dell laptop went nuts, which is why I'm trying to get my work Mac up to snuff now). Anyway, I've been on OS X from 10.0, and there have been long periods where I was able to get either Schubert plugin and/or the Adobe plugin to work in Firefox, so there ought to (or at least used to be) a way, and there shouldn't be any need to accept a more tedious way of viewing web PDFs.
It's a hidden preference, you type that at the terminal and restart the program to get PDFs inside the browser window. It's not on by default because the controls aren't yet complete, but it works.
as someone has mentioned, have you tried the pdf download extension? it is not as capable as acrobat 8 or preview, but the extension is a quick and dirty way to view pdfs w/o downloading them.