Comment on Hungry Lions

• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unless your browser is poopy, it should just open the pdf in the browser without saving it as a file.

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  • IcyToes@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When in reality, the browser just downloads it, then opens it.

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    • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How else should it even be possible? Obviously every browser needs to download it and 100 % too.

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      • workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It could put it in a temporary cache that’s deleted when you close it

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    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah smarty pants obviously it has to download the data, but by default it shouldnt permanently store it as a file in your download folder. Files like this should go into a tmp file or only into RAM.

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      • IcyToes@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’d check if I was you. I think both Chrome and Firefox keep it in downloads folder

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    • lengau@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So like a web page.

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      • IcyToes@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Except a webpage isn’t exactly stored on the computer. JS and CSS files are cached. Images also, but not HTML. So no, not like a web page.

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    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Downloads it? Yes. Save as a file? No, atleast not permanently

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      • IcyToes@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, usually in downloads for Firefox. I think Chrome is the same.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It has to download any content it shows you, whether that’s a web page, pdf, or anything else. It can’t just magically know what to display without downloading it. Whether it stores it permanently is another question. Most browsers don’t do this. If yours does there’s probably a setting for that, or it’s just a really bad browser.

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  • Donut@leminal.space ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Firefox mobile downloads it first, then you have to tap “open”.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    MJ PDF is better than pdf.js.

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• secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Based

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