Finally found a fix how to stop firefox downloading each PDF to your local drive

PropaGandalf@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.ml – 291 points –
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Hey guys

Today I got so annyed by firefox's default behaviour of downloading each and every PDF file to my disk that I went searching for a solution until I had the problem fixed. And it seems like I have finally found it. I have linked the solution but here is the fix in short:

  1. go to about:config
  2. change browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline to true

Thank you jscher2000 for the solution!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9785046

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Excuse my ignorance but what chapter / section of the GDPR deals with end users downloading pdfs?

All of it, if the PDF contains personal information. Anything that can identify a person is personal information and can only be kept if the person has constented to you keeping it.

It does not matter in which format or where. That includes files in your download or trash can folders.

Respectfully, that's not true. GDPR Article 2(2)(c):

  1. This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data: (c) by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity;

I'm obviously talking about work and not my porn stash.