Pdfs On Firefox For Mac
Qantas94Heavy If it is already set to that and it still won't load with the built-in viewer, please let us know. I let you know that it doesn't work for me because it already was like that and instead of show me PDF itself Firefox tries to download it. You know what's funny is here? That this problem only happens when I try to open ALREADY DOWNLOADED PDF! With pdf's location as link it works fine. But as soon as I try to open saved PDF. I get this stupid thing!
Click the Action column next to Portable Document Format (PDF). Firefox on Mac OS Select Firefox. Choose Preferences > Applications. Select Portable Document Format (PDF) from the Content Type Column. Click the Action column next to Portable Document Format (PDF), and then select Use Adobe Acrobat NPAPI Plug-in. Chrome on Mac or Windows. How to set preferences for viewing PDFs in Firefox for MacOSX. September 1, 2007 in computing, mac-osx, pdf, tips. Stuck with only the option to open PDFs with Preview in Firefox? Want to use another PDF reader? You can change this setting.
Already disabled all addons. This kinda pisses me off.
'Qantas94Heavy #answer-828454 said' If it is already set to that and it still won't load with the built-in viewer, please let us know. I let you know that it doesn't work for me because it already was like that and instead of show me PDF itself Firefox tries to download it. You know what's funny is here? That this problem only happens when I try to open ALREADY DOWNLOADED PDF! With pdf's location as link it works fine. But as soon as I try to open saved PDF. I get this stupid thing!
Already disabled all addons. This kinda pisses me off.
To date, people who wanted to view downloaded PDFs on a Mac have had three options:. Use Safari's in-line PDF viewer plug-in to view PDFs in Safari. Use Firefox v3 and the Firefox PDF plug-in for Mac to view PDFs in Firefox.
Use a current version of Firefox, download the PDFs, and view them in a PDF reader app. That's right - there was no way to view PDFs in Firefox 4 or 5 as one could do in Safari, because the Firefox PDF plug-in didn't work above Firefox 3.6. That is, it didn't officially work. But it turns out that with some simple modifications, you can get this plug-in to work just fine in Firefox 5 and probably future versions of Firefox, thus allowing you to view PDFs in the browser once again. With the Applications folder open in Finder, do a Get Info on Firefox. Check the box for 'Open in 32-bit mode.'
. If Firefox is currently open, quit and relaunch it. Download the (this is the beta 1.2 plug-in; the official 1.1.3 plug-in doesn't work with this procedure). When prompted, Save the downloaded file.
You should get a file called fx-quartz-pdf-1.2.0.xpi in your Downloads folder. Double-click it to decompress it. Inside the resulting folder, you'll see 'install.rdf.' Open this file in TextEdit or vi or another simple text editor. Look for a line reading '4.0.' .
Change that 4 to 20. (Or you could change it to 5, but since Firefox is going to go through version numbers pretty quickly, you should pick one pretty far out.). Save and exit. Select all the files in the fx-quartz-pdf-1.2.0 folder, right-click on them, and select 'Compress 6 items.'
Do NOT compress the containing folder or it won't work later on. Now you'll have a file called Archive.zip. Rename this file fx-quartz-pdf-1.2.0.xpi.
In Firefox, go to the Tools menu and select Add-Ons. At the top of the window, look for the button with the gear icon. Click this and select 'Install Add-On from File.'
. Browse to and select the fx-quartz-pdf-1.2.0.xpi file you created. Approve the add-on installation when prompted. Now this may work fine for some of you and you may be done. Test the add-on by attempting to open an online PDF.
If it opens in the browser, great, you're done. But in my case, more work was required, because Firefox claimed that the add-on was installed, but it wasn't actually working. So I had to do some additional clean-up. Quit Firefox. Open /Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/randomcharacters.default/extensions/. You should see a file called colesbury@gmail.com.xpi. It's the compressed file we created earlier, but with a different name.
I think this is why it's not working. If you see a folder called colesbury@gmail.com instead, you have some other problem. Go up one level to the gibberish.default folder. You should see a file called extensions.ini. Open this file in your text editor.
Look for an entry that ends with colesbury@gmail.com.xpi. Remove the '.xpi' extension. Save and exit.
Back in the extensions folder, double-click on colesbury@gmail.com.xpi. This should expand it into a folder named colesbury@gmail.com.
If necessary, delete the previous.xpi file. Launch Firefox 5. It should properly display PDFs in the browser now. crarko adds: I haven't tested this one. That's because the wrong plugin is linked in the tutorial.
There are actually two versions of the PDF plugin floating around, both labeled '1.2.0'. However, their file hashes are different. This one works. You just need to run Firefox in 32-bit mode and install the Add-on Compatibility Reporter extension.
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Install PDF plugin. Restart and test!
Ignore the incessant forum spam for the stupid Schubert it plugin. It's plastered all over here and in the Google Code forums. 'pdf.js' is coming soon, hopefully making both of these obsolete. Great work-around! Thanks so much for posting this.
I had been really annoyed with this problem since upgrading to FF4 a while back, and then was pretty annoyed to see FF5 didn't offer native PDF support either. Followed your steps and it worked like a charm - PDFs are now opening just fine! Couple of quick notes:. I had to go through your full process, as well, with that second set of steps in the Extensions folder. A couple of times, I had issues with OSX not reading the.xpi file as a compressed file, so I had to right-click and compress the file first, then when I un/de-compressed it, it opened the archive and made the subfolders like it was supposed to. This happened in the sixth step of the first section ('You should get a file called fx-quartz-pdf-1.2.0.xpi in your Downloads folder.
Double-click it to decompress it.' ) and then again in the eighth step in the second section ('Back in the extensions folder, double-click on colesbury@gmail.com.xpi. This should expand it into a folder.' ) - but again, just manually compressing the file so OS X saw it as an archive file did the trick. In addition, I also ran into a minor snag when I tried to add the extension in Firefox - when trying to select the file in the 'Browse to and select the blahblah.xpi file you created' step, that file was grayed out. It turned out that by compressing the 6 files in the previous step, it had created the file fx-quartz-pdf-1.2.0.xpi but had renamed it with a.zip on the end and then hidden the extension. I did a 'Get Info' on the file in the Finder window and just deleted the.zip from the filename.
(Note that OS X will prompt you to either use.zip or.xpi as the extension at this point, and you want to select.xpi) Just thought I'd post these minor snags in case anyone else runs into them as well. Thanks again for posting these steps! – I couldn't get alexiskai's procedure to work under Leopard 10.5.8 (anyone else?), even if doing his additional clean-up steps.
It appears normally among my Add-ons Manager active Extensions, but just doesn't work. – url=is the the main Schubert webpage for the PDF Browser Plugin 2.4.1 corresponding to abderrahman's above download link. Note well that it is Snow Leopard only; no plain-vanilla Leopard. Edit: What's wrong with the URL tags?.
The process following where you edit the extensions.ini file is to make it consistent with what has changed in the.ini file. After extracting the contents of 'colesbury@gmail.com.xpi', it gives you a 'colesbury@gmail.com' folder (which now matches the change in the extensions.ini from the edit). Get free antivirus for mac. So 'If necessary, delete the previous.xpi file.'
Is saying you can now remove 'colesbury@gmail.com.xpi' file, because it isn't needed anymore. Now FF5 should load the plugin from the 'colesbury@gmail.com' folder and it should work as it used to in FF3. And don't forget the 'Open in 32-bit mode' setting on FF btw. I've followed the steps listed in the first section successfully (as far as I can tell). In my Add-ons manager, the plugin is displayed (but alas, pdfs still download instead of simply viewing). However, when I attempt the steps listed in the second section, I cannot find the paths listed.
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For instance, in the Library/Application Support/. Part, I don't have a Firefox folder, but instead have a Mozilla folder. Inside that, there is a folder called 'Extensions' and within that a gibberish folder (with two more gibberish folders inside that). The problem is that I can't find the extensions.ini file to change in any of these folders or subfolders. You seem to have forgotten about the ' in front of the directory path alexiskai specified.
The ' means it is relative to your home directory (e.g. If you opened up a Terminal and did 'cd ', you'll find yourself at your home directory. You can try doing a 'pwd' after this command and you'll see the full absolute path that you could type instead of using ').
By default, when you open a Terminal it will start in your home directory unless you have made changes to your profile. NB: If you haven't heard of the 'home directory' before, then you can read an introduction to it here (OS X showing its.nix roots:D): Thus the steps in the 2nd section is effectively making changes to your own user profile (where FF has stored its settings against your particular login).