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Joe
Asked: 2014-08-14 11:16:39 +0800 CST

Firefox - how to avoid duplicate file data download when using "save page as"?

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I find that I am accessing many pdf files which are downloaded for reading into Firefox. But when I go to save these files using "save page as", Firefox repeats the data download. As the files can be big, this is tiresome.

Is there a way to avoid this duplication of file data download?

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    If you're using pdf.js (the default, built in Firefox plugin used to show PDFs), there's a button to download the PDF within the PDF viewer. This doesn't re-download content.

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    Test with this file (1.1MB).

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  2. You could press Ctrl+P and chose print to file.

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