Chuck wrote:
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Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 07:14:41 -0500
From: Richard Owlett<[email protected]>
To:[email protected]
Subject: Re: support-seamonkey Digest, Vol 118, Issue 6  [AKA I Can
    Open But    Not Download PDF Files]
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Chuck wrote:
From a web page link. The PDF is open in the browser but will
not download. I have reloaded Seamonkey. The same thing occurs
in Internet explorer????

What version of SeaMonkey?
What URL? If same problem exists in IE something is really peculiar.
Does this occur for any other URLs?

Seamonkey 2.38. All URLs

Please bottom-post in this forum, thanks.

A couple of thoughts. But first, I assume what you mean by "download" is "save the file to my disk." Because if you're viewing it on your computer, you've already downloaded (received) it. You just don't know where SeaMonkey is holding it -- in memory, a temp file, whatever.

1) If you're happy with PDFs opening in SeaMonkey but want the option of saving them to disk, you already have it. With the file open in SM, just do File | Save As... and go from there. You'll note that the file type is already set to Adobe Acrobat (version number), so you don't need to worry about the file getting corrupted or anything.

2) If you want PDFs to trigger an offer to save to disk, check your settings under Edit | Preferences | Browser | Helper Applications. There will probably be several PDF file types because PDFs are served with several MIME types. Change the setting(s) to "Always Ask." Then SeaMonkey will ask for a decision each time. I find this a bit of a bother, YMMV.

One other terminology note: "reload" doesn't mean the same as "reinstall." "Load" and "reload" just mean "read (a file or program) off a disk into working memory." What you did was probably reinstall the program.

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