Hello.
My Firefox and a lot of my customers' keep changing the action for PDF
files.
All my customers use Windows and want to use Acrobat Reader: I set it
up and I periodically receive calls because it changed either to
internal PDF viewer or to Save file.
In my case, I want to use Okular, so I set it to system default
application; periodically it changes to "Save file".
N.B. In case this isn't clear, it's not a user initiated change.
Neither me nor any of my customers touches this settings, either intentionally or not.
Is there a way to fix this permanently?
bye & Thanks
av.
Hello.
My Firefox and a lot of my customers' keep changing the action for PDF
files.
All my customers use Windows and want to use Acrobat Reader: I set it up
and I periodically receive calls because it changed either to internal
PDF viewer or to Save file.
In my case, I want to use Okular, so I set it to system default
application; periodically it changes to "Save file".
N.B. In case this isn't clear, it's not a user initiated change. Neither
me nor any of my customers touches this settings, either intentionally
or not.
Is there a way to fix this permanently?
bye & Thanks
av.
Have you changed the settings in FF to look like in this picture:
[ Image goes here ] <https://i.imgur.com/aofRLWs.png>
After making this change, you need to go to Windows Settings and change
it to use your App whatever it may be.
On 2/15/21 5:52 PM, 😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote:
Have you changed the settings in FF to look like in this picture:
[ Image goes here ] <https://i.imgur.com/aofRLWs.png>
Yes.
And I also tried choosing Acrobat Reader/Okular manually.
After making this change, you need to go to Windows Settings and
change it to use your App whatever it may be.
That was already set up correctly.
The problem is NOT that it doesn't work.
The problem is it works for a while (days, weeks, possibly month), then changes to whatever FireFox likes better.
bye & Thanks
av.
Are days, week, possibly months are they in sync with software updates?
Just a thought!
There used to be, on Win8 and earlier. But Win 10 keeps changing back to
its own defaults. I think updates trigger that.
Removing the offending Win10 app should make the customer-preferred
default stick. I removed MS Office 365, and (so far) Win10 respects my wordproc default. (It also saved a ton of disk space, each language
version of MS Office used about 550MB!).
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