• @Mango
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    145 days ago

    Did you really just direct link a PDF download?

    • @[email protected]
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      265 days ago

      Unless your browser is poopy, it should just open the pdf in the browser without saving it as a file.

      • @[email protected]
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        265 days ago

        When in reality, the browser just downloads it, then opens it.

        • @Eheran
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          125 days ago

          How else should it even be possible? Obviously every browser needs to download it and 100 % too.

          • @workerONE
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            35 days ago

            It could put it in a temporary cache that’s deleted when you close it

            • @Eheran
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              84 days ago

              So it did safe the file…?

        • @[email protected]
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          74 days ago

          Yeah smarty pants obviously it has to download the data, but by default it shouldnt permanently store it as a file in your download folder. Files like this should go into a tmp file or only into RAM.

          • @[email protected]
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            64 days ago

            I’d check if I was you. I think both Chrome and Firefox keep it in downloads folder

            • @Mango
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              24 days ago

              Yes, obviously. That’s what we have a problem with.

            • @[email protected]
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              24 days ago

              Idk about default Firefox, but both Fennec on Android and Librewolf on Desktop do not permanently save it.

          • @[email protected]
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            -24 days ago

            Except a webpage isn’t exactly stored on the computer. JS and CSS files are cached. Images also, but not HTML. So no, not like a web page.

            • @[email protected]
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              84 days ago

              By default any HTTP response is cached, including HTML.

        • @[email protected]
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          44 days ago

          Downloads it? Yes. Save as a file? No, atleast not permanently

          • @[email protected]
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            4 days ago

            Yeah, usually in downloads folder for Firefox. I think Chrome is the same.

        • Cethin
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          34 days ago

          It has to download any content it shows you, whether that’s a web page, pdf, or anything else. It can’t just magically know what to display without downloading it. Whether it stores it permanently is another question. Most browsers don’t do this. If yours does there’s probably a setting for that, or it’s just a really bad browser.

      • @[email protected]
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        24 days ago

        Firefox mobile downloads it first, then you have to tap “open”.