• @[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.

      • @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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            85 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.

          • @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.

      • 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.