Speed up PDF viewing in Firefox

Firefox Shortcuts & Tips

As we all know, viewing a PDF online is a slow and sometimes

annoying process because

it takes awhile to fully load the document.

This tip will help you to view PDF’s quicker by

making a few basic

adjustments to Firefox.

PDF’s open up much quicker from your computer than they do on the

Internet. All we’re

going to do is to tell Firefox to save the PDF to

your computer rather than have it open by

using the Adobe plugin in

Firefox, by simply changing the settings in Firefox.

Step 1

With Firefox open, follow this path to get to the appropriate settings

field.

Tools > Options > Downloads > Downloads Actions > View & Edit Actions.

Step 2

Select PDF Adobe Acrobat Document as seen in the image below and

click on "Change

Action...".

Step 3

While in the "Change Action" window, select "Save them to my

computer"

Where the file ends up depends on your own configuration but it's

usually the Desktop. You

can choose where it's saved under the

Downloads Tab

in Tools> Options > Downloads.

Step 4

Repeat steps 2 & 3 for each Adobe Extension that you see, close all

windows and that's it.

Finally

You can test out your new settings by entering .pdf in Google.

If all goes well, PDF documents will now be saved to your computer

for quicker viewing.

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