Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
PhillipJones wrote:
Arnie Goetchius wrote:
SM 2.19. When I click on a URL that points to a PDF, SM asks me where I
want to save it. I don't want to save it, just view it. I thought it use
to be I could view it without saving it. Is there something in
preferences, Plug-ins or About: that controls this ?
Long ancient history ago the Adobe PDF Viewer Plugin worked but hasn't
for Mac in Years. And adobe has no intention of fixing it.
There is a Plugin from a fellow named Schubert out Germany. Its
PDFBrowser Plugin.
Mozilla has changes JavaScript so that The Buttons to trigger a weblink
has been killed for last 3-4 years. (See Recipes Section of my website
www.phillipmjones.net) click on Home button should go back to the main
Recipes page. They work perfectly in Chrome, Maxthon. and others.
These Plugins allowed viewing PDF's without downloading the PDF. The
Poor excuse for a PDF viewer Mozilla has created such buttons do not
work.
How do you think the PDF gets to your computer so you can see it? It has
to be downloaded. If you "view it without saving it," you're really
saving it in the browser cache instead of someplace you choose.
If you use the setting to use Acrobat or Reader it must download a
local Copy. Wasting valuable Hard Drive space.
You waste just as much space putting it in the cache as anywhere else on
the HDD. The difference is that the cache is quickly purged or
overwritten as you continue to browse or when you close the program, but
a user-selected location is reliable and can be found as needed.
As for "wasting valuable hard drive space," in these days of terabyte
and even petabyte drives, that thought doesn't even enter my mind. I
could download a 10 GB file without breaking a sweat or crowding my HDD
(though of course I'd have to wait a bit for it to arrive). But the 5-10
MB pdfs I see everyday are such a drop in the bucket that I just go on
about my business. It would be different if I were using a smartphone,
but the last I looked Samsung was selling one with a 64 GB memory, so
I'd have to work pretty hard to strain it.
I have an iPhone 5 with 32 GB and an iPad with 64 GB but since I
don't have FF or SM or TB for it I don't use it for email I use chrome
though I am not crazy about on occasion. Mostly I use Phone Text and
apps I can use directly.
I started out with a 500GB hard Drive and just every day use of computer
mostly using SM and FF I've filled it up to 160 GB LEFT which according
to days standards is sort of low. I clean out caches and other items
daily.
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Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it"
http://www.phillipmjones.net mailto:[email protected]
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