Disabling PDF Display in Firefox
If you are like me and hate it when PDF files open in the browser window I have a solution.
The good news is that there is a “very easy way” (it’s just four levels of dialogs down, come on!) to change this behavior with Firefox on Windows:
1. Go to the “Tools -> Options” menu
2. Select the “Downloads” tab
3. Open “View and Edit Actions…”
4. Enter “pdf” in the “Search” box
5. Select “Change Action…”
6. Change the selection from “Use this Plugin” to “Open them with the default application”, which should point to Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, or your favorite PDF viewer
Easy as cake. While you are in there you can change other application settings, for example QuickTime movies.
Windows? Yikes! Dude… ehhhh… wOw. I feel for ya.