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RNalivaika
Jul 14, 2020Iron Contributor
Open links to PDF files internally in Edge
Hello Edge experts. When I click on a link or paste URL directly to a PDF file, for example this: http://download.microsoft.com/documents/rus/Licensing/Windows-10-Volume-Licensing-Guide.pdf I get t...
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RNalivaika I looped the PDF team in. Thanks to your feedback, they're making a bug for this and will be looking into it further!
Fawkes (they/them)
Program Manager & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
RNalivaika
Jul 16, 2020Iron Contributor
Hello HotCakeX and thanks for your input. That helps a bit, but does not solve the issue completely. I've also testet the same setting using GPO/Registry with version 85 (dev). It is not desirable that the PDF file lands in downloads folder. Some users who quickly review tens and hundreds of PDFs each day will quickly make their downloads folder messy. 🙂 Regards, Ruslan
HotCakeX
Jul 16, 2020MVP
RNalivaika wrote:Hello HotCakeX and thanks for your input. That helps a bit, but does not solve the issue completely. I've also testet the same setting using GPO/Registry with version 85 (dev). It is not desirable that the PDF file lands in downloads folder. Some users who quickly review tens and hundreds of PDFs each day will quickly make their downloads folder messy. 🙂 Regards, Ruslan
Hi, I think Edge needs improvements there, you can send that PDF link along with a problem description as feedback using Edge feedback button and hopefully the devs will fix this in the future.
Edge opens some PDF files internally and downloads the rest.
Firefox opens All PDF files internally by default, without exception, and if the user wants PDF files to be downloaded instead, they can go to the Firefox settings and change this behavior.
so the problem/bug with Edge is that it is making exceptions for some reason.
This is Firefox settings for PDF:
and now Edge settings for PDF:
just one simple toggle button...which is vague and confusing.
"open files externally" ... with which program? nobody knows. but on Firefox, there is a whole bunch of advanced settings, you can also choose your default program to open PDFs with inside Firefox.
Edge needs these settings.
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