Vivaldi ignores Adobe PDF Reader extension when clicking on a tag and downloads PDF
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I installed the Adobe Reader extension and turned off the built-in PDF viewer. (Because the Chromium PDF viewer performs poorly)
However, when opening the link, Vivaldi does not open the PDF, but downloads the PDF file.
Open the link with a middle click or in a background tab to view the PDF with Adobe extensions.
In Chrome, the link can be opened directly in Adobe Extensions. -
@yasei_no_otoko What is your default program for opening PDF files? In my case, if I disable the PDF plugin and associate PDF files with PDF-XChange Editor, PDF files open in PDF-Xchange. (The PDF files are downloaded to my Downloads folder, as expected).
It may depend on how the webpage is encoded. Test any of the Typeface Samples on my fonts page.
.htaccess should be configured correctly for PDF files:
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@Pesala I use this extension.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adobe-acrobat-pdf-edit-co/efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkajI would like to view PDFs on Vivaldi without downloading them. It has better performance than the built in viewer.
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After a little trial and error, I found Workaround.
It seems to be caused by an a tag with target="_blank".
By using this extension, it now behaves as expected on Vivaldi.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/death-to-blank/gneobebnilffgkejpfhlgkmpkipgbcno -
@yasei_no_otoko Left click on any link to a PDF on my Fonts page opens the PDF file in a new Tab, without saving it in my Downloads folder, though the file is obviously downloaded somewhere. I wish I knew where, so that I could delete it.
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@Pesala This problem turned out to be a target="_blank" issue in Vivaldi.
Your page opened the PDF by Adobe without any problem, but Vivaldi will download the PDF if target="_blank" is included.
The PDF opens fine by Adobe in Chrome and Edge.I would like the Vivaldi team to fix it if possible.
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@yasei_no_otoko Try Right-click, Open Link, which will open the link in the current tab, ignoring the Target="blank" setting.
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@Pesala I have already discovered Workaround. It is not a solution.
Also, middle click does not cause the problem. So it is clearly an issue with Vivaldi's implementation of target="_blank".
