These usually are for specialized documents and not normal PDFs. You may see other document types mentioned in the Applications list, referring to Adobe, Foxit, or other programs. Unlike IE, Firefox does not inspect the initial binary code of files to override a mistaken content type Firefox just believes what the server is indicating. Servers usually are consistent about this, so while some sites may send PDFs as a generic binary file, a site where Firefox does the right thing should continue to work normally. In the Applications list on the Options page, the 'Portable Document Format (pdf)' entry refers to documents that the server explicitly identifies as being the 'application/pdf' content type. Settings should not change on their own, but there are some complicating factors in Firefox vs. Modified Octoat 10:09:12 AM PDT by Amazone That is : If I use Firefox as default browser. My experience over the last month is not positive!!!!

I wanted to try Firefox because it is said to be soo much better than Internet explorer. If I set Internet Explorer to default browser all works as it should. That is : If I use Firefox as default browser. When I open Foxit Reader and want to open the help pdf there I cannot open it but only save it. I then changed to Always ask - nothing is asked - I can only download. I have changed to Foxit 7.0 again - problem remains.

I looked at settings in applications and setting was set to Foxit Reader plugin. Since yesterday again all pdf are downloading. Then suddenly Firefox started downloading all documents - setting was changed to downloading - I changed it to asking again When I started using Firefox (some months ago) I had set to always ask. In fact settings seem to change all the time lately. I have had the same problem some weeks ago and then solved it by going in Applications and setting pdf documents to Foxit Reader.

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