Screw you, Adobe!
As I already wrote, I’m trying to force Firefox to treat PDFs as any other binary file, because the Firefox-Adobe integration doesn’t work for me the way I’d like it to work.
I’ve posted a solution that, turns out, was only a temporary fix. The stupid behaviour is back, and I can’t find any more switches to toggle. But don’t despair, I’ve found The Ultimate Solution.
It’s called ‘PDF Download‘, and it’s an extension for Firefox. That’s right, an extension. And what does it do? It catches all clicks to PDF files and then offers you 4 choices:
1) Save to disk
2) Open in new tab (standard firefox behaviour, only in a new tab)
3) View as HTML — this is a kickass option for textual PDFs, because it’s amazingly fast
4) Cancel (eat the click and don’t do anything)
Let me tell you right now. This extension is A M A Z I N G. It works exactly as advertised, and it does a hell of a job. It’s become one of my favorite firefox extensions in less than one day.
That’s enough out of me. Head out to rabotat.org to install it.
