Get more control on how PDF files gets downloaded with Firefox

By Ashish Mohta

There are times when you start downloading PDF files using Firefox either your Firefox browser gets hanged or it simply crashes. This is very annoying situation which many users face. Moreover there are no ways which you can download them as a different format like HTML.

pdf download popup

However we have a solution for this. PDF Download Extension of Firefox you can set what should be down when the browser starts downloading the it. You can set it

  • Ask what you want to do with the PDF file.
  • Convert into HTML File if you want to see the content before downloading and saving it to your hard disk.
  • Download it directly
  • Open it in the browser automatically
  • On top of all these it also tells you the file size of the PDF before you start downloading, opening or converting it.
  • Allows you to setup your favorite PDF reader to view.

This plugin is very handy as it will give you more control and you will know the file size also which I had not see anywhere else.

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    • Sumesh, March 20, 2008:

      Good tool, but I have DAP which integrates with Firefox and kicks in when you click a download link. It shows you the time estimated and file size, which are enough for me. Each man to his own, I guess ;)

    • Ashish Mohta, March 20, 2008:

      @Sumesh: Yup exactly. I dont use FDM for downloading PDF and all coz it does not give me a preview before I download it and top of that I get option to do whatever I want to do wih every pdf. I dont want to save them all the time.

    • Elections photos, March 21, 2008:

      Useful extension. Will check it out.

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