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FF 47.0.1 and PDF files

deustroop

deustroop

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G'day

Firefox 47 displays and downloads a pdf as GnosLoadPDFForms. I have Adobe Acrobat Reader DC but the file remains unopened on the drive.
IE 11 downloads the file as GnosLoadPDFForms.pdf.

What gives? Is there a remedy ?
 
deustroop said:
G'day

Firefox 47 displays and downloads a pdf as GnosLoadPDFForms. I have Adobe Acrobat Reader DC but the file remains unopened on the drive.
IE 11 downloads the file as GnosLoadPDFForms.pdf.

What gives? Is there a remedy ?
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Not sure what you are asking?
If you want to download the pdf in FF, then, while it is displayed, then the upper right corner of the viewer is a icon you click on to download it locally (as in save to your drive).
If you don't want to see it in the viewer, then right click the pdf, and select save link as.
 
FF does handle pdf files normally but not this one, and does not show the file with a pdf extension while IE does. What should I do to have FF recognize or handle the file as a pdf ? IE d/ls it and shows it properly as a pdf. I see many old reports of exactly this problem but no solution--tho IE has it sorted. Just a minor thing but FF does not do it correctly ?

I'd send the link but it's a secure site. Let's all go back to bed.
 
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Kinda hard to say without having a link.
I assume it has to do with how the link is being served, and what meta data it is telling the browser what the file is.
 
So can you see the pdf in the browser (FF)? and just not if you try to open the downloaded file? If you throw a pdf extension on the file, does it open correctly?
 
The web page displays a link to a form to print. Things have now changed a little. Before, as noted above, when clicked, the link offered a form folder with no extension. Now a window from adobe acrobat reader dc advises that "this pdf file is attempting to launch file:///c:/users/chris/appdata/local/temp/GnosloadFForms-1.fdf . Are you sure you want to continue"? NO opens adobe with no file listed; Yes throws up another identical adobe window.

The same site in IE downloads the proper file "GnosloadFForms.pdf ". I note the extension .fdf but presumably IE gets that too.

Can there be a remedy ?
 
Every once it a while, whether it's site design, or a quirk in the browser, there are certain pages that I have to open with IE.

Well, I don't have to, there are some FF extensions out there that will make it mimic IE's behavior, but in the end it's just easier to open that page with IE, and move on with things.
 
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