Libre Office Writer and Okular

[anonprivate]

When I click on a doc or pdf file, these files dowlnoad rather than open in Writer or Okular.

Can I configure the system so that these files open rather than download?

Thanks

[Feathers McGraw]

Do you mean when you click a link in a web browser? Which browser?

In firefox, you can go menu --> preferences --> applications and set an action for each specific content type (for example, "Preview in Firefox" for PDFs).

I think that when you "just open" a file in a browser it gets downloaded and stashed in a temporary file, so it's downloaded either way, and the only real difference is how it's displayed.

[anonprivate]

THanks for responding.

In menu - preferences - applications I see a reference for pdf, but not for doc!

Best wishes.

A

Ps. I use the FF browser

[Feathers McGraw]

I think that's because Firefox has a built-in PDF viewer, but a word processor is more complicated.

I'm not sure it's possible to open .doc files in a browser directly (or even why you'd want to to be honest).

BTW I think opening PDFs in the browser is the default for FF, do you remember changing it so that it doesn't do this?

[Snowhog]

Install a FF Plug-in. One available is Google Documents Viewer 0.10.1.1

[claydoh]

Oddly, my firefox prompts me for what to use when downloading a Word doc in FF.
This might be necessary to reset the prompts, perhaps?
I was thinking it would be just an edit in about:config, but I was a bit off...

[anonprivate]

I think that's because Firefox has a built-in PDF viewer, but a word processor is more complicated.

I'm not sure it's possible to open .doc files in a browser directly (or even why you'd want to to be honest).

BTW I think opening PDFs in the browser is the default for FF, do you remember changing it so that it doesn't do this?

I might have changed it, It is the sort of thing I would do.

[Feathers McGraw]

I might have changed it, It is the sort of thing I would do.

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