OFF TOPIC!

[Bruce / Mission Amps]

Does anyone know why some of the attached PDF files here open right up and others force me to save them somewhere on my hard-drive and then go find them again on my computer and then open them with Adobe?
I really find that annoying.
Is this something Mozilla-Firefox is doing or what?

[Enzo]

I am strictly an IE user, and this happens to me too.

I think it is more a matter of where the link goes, but that is just a guess.

[tboy]

I've tried to find the answer to that, but failed so far. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with how the forum software serves up the PDFs, but it remains a mystery after everything I've tried to change it.

[Bruce / Mission Amps]

I've tried to find the answer to that, but failed so far. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with how the forum software serves up the PDFs, but it remains a mystery after everything I've tried to change it.

OK Steve, I can live with it as long as I know it's not something my computer or I am doing.... I'm not that computer savvy so thins like this always yank me around.

[J M Fahey]

Hi.I'm not computer savy or guru but inveterate tinkerer.
Download and install a Mozilla Add-on called: MIME Edit.
It lets you tweak the way Mozilla handles certain files, when you don't like the default mode .
It lets you make stupid things also, such as open an MP3 in PCB design software, and stuff like that ,so be careful what you ask it to do because, unfortunately, it will obey you.
AFAIK, no browser opens PDFs by itself, but asks you to install a plugin, which for all practical means is a "free sample" of a full fledged program.
Browsers download files, and ask theirs plugin to open them, still "within the browser", usually in a new window or even over or in the one already open (such as background music), *but* when the bite is too large to swallow (too large/complex/modern) it throws the towel and just downloads it to some Directory.
It happens apparently at random, but really depends on what it reads in the header.
*I* have configured Mime Edit to open "application/pdf" files with the "standard application" called Adobe Acrobat x.y which lives in C:\...\Acrobat Reader , so it works *almost* always.
The very few cases where it grunts "That's too new/weird for me", I choose to download the file but usually can't open it anyway.
Mind you , it does open the file straight into an Adobe Acrobat window, not *within* the browser, which is fine because you have more control over it.
Good luck.

[Zouto]

Hi, I'm using the pdf.browser plugin
Schubert|it PDF Browser Plugin
on my intel iMac/Snow Leopard with Camino 2.0.1, it's free for private use, and it's just working fine for opening, saving and printing pdf files.
But I think it's for Mac only.
Zouto