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Drew1903
Silver Contributor
Apr 20, 2019

FYI regarding PDFs

Feedback: Following "Try It" request. I tried this in both Dev & Canary.  I used the highlighted method. They opened fine, all 'controls' worked just fine.  Whole effort was or seemed snag-free. ...
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SCook1280
Brass Contributor
Apr 21, 2019
Sorry reading comprehension on me😕
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Drew1903
Silver Contributor
Apr 21, 2019

SCook1280 

Ok, on the surface & from this vantage point, this doesn't make any, obvious, sense when, it is 'plug-n-play' for everyone (else).  But, I'll make a couple of suggestions and with no guarantee of anything.  Close your Dev, completely & refire it.  As for this PDF excercise, put everything back to square one & try re-attempting to whole scenario from scratch.  In other words, basically, remove, refresh, re-install & redo the task.  Could, even, rebboot the machine.  I'm wondering, recommending to see what it does for you with all clean, cleared & tried anew.  Certainly, I am suggest this type of approach since, what is, actually, causing it is baffling & mysterious.  And, report the behavior you have to Mr. Smiley (Alt+Shift+I).

Cheers,
Drew



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    SCook1280
    Brass Contributor
    Apr 21, 2019

    Tried all your suggestions and even uninstalled Edge Dev and reinstalled and still no luck. Something that I didn’t expect was when reinstalling Edge it was at the same state as it was when I uninstalled it. (same settings signed in etc. as when I uninstalled) not sure if this is registry settings not deleted or something the insider program keeps track of.

    I’m going to keep playing with this and I think I’ll try the Canary build and see how that works for me. I did report this to Mr. Smiley when I first encountered it and will do so again with more details.

    Thank for taking the time to offer the suggestions.

    Drew1903 

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      Drew1903
      Silver Contributor
      Apr 21, 2019

      SCook1280 

      1st of all, you're welcome.  I am, very, anxious to know what you have with Canary!  It is darn cool to know you tried my suggestions; not, very, cool that there is no change.  I'll suggest all came back as it was, due to 'sign-in' or the power of your MS Acc't; if you do R&R the OS, will come back as 'YOU' upon sign-in.

      Cheers.
      Drew

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        SCook1280
        Brass Contributor
        Apr 21, 2019

         Drew1903   I found it. In Settings>Site Permissions>PDF documents > Download PDF files instead of automatically opening them was set to on. I honestly don't remember turning this setting on when I first setup Edge Dev. 

        I did install Canary and tried it without doing any changes except signing in and it worked perfectly. So I compared each setting between the two and noticed the difference (wasn't turned on in cannery) made the change and everything worked. If I turn on again it breaks again just keeps going back to the save to  download folder. 

        Like I said I don't remember turning the setting on and it didn't get turned off when I used the Reset Settings option. I'm curious if this setting change causes problems for others or if it's just me.

        Also like the Canary build too. I'm going to keep it setup basic might come in handy in the future.

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