Directly download PDF documents in Firefox without viewing them

I don't know about you, but I personally don't like that Mozilla Firefox loads PDFs in a new tab, as I find it slower for viewing their content.

Instead, I prefer to download the PDF directly , and there's a very simple way to do this, as always, by using about:config.

The procedure as I mentioned is very simple.

  1. We open a new tab and type about: config
  2. We lie a little and promise to be careful… 
  3. Then we type the acronym pdf
  4. We look for the option pdfjs.disabled which must be disabled and we double click to put it on true.

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That's it. To revert to the default, repeat the procedure and double-click on pdfjs.disabled to restore everything to normal.


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