Comment on Hungry Lions

• IcyToes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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      • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        So it did safe the file…?

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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      • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yes, obviously. That’s what we have a problem with.

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      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Idk about default Firefox, but both Fennec on Android and Librewolf on Desktop do not permanently save it.

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  • lengau@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    So like a web page.

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    • IcyToes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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      • lengau@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        By default any HTTP response is cached, including HTML.

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  • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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    • IcyToes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  MJ PDF is better than pdf.js.

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