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Re: Open PDFs from mail attachment

From	Schugo <schugo@schugo.de>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.seamonkey
Subject	Re: Open PDFs from mail attachment
Date	2025-12-19 15:41 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<10i3o7o$17ksg$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 19.12.2025 15:38, Schugo wrote:
> On 19.12.2025 15:22, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> On 12/15/25 10:33 AM, Schugo wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> when I click on a PDF attachment the browser opens a blank page.
>>> When I press ENTER in the urlbar the preview shows up.
>>> Only me or a bug?
>>> 
>>> ciao..
>>> 
>> 
>> Why do refer at all to "the browser opening a window"?
>> What program are you using to read the email?
>> 
>> I have SeaMonkey 2.53.21 installed on a Debian 12.8 system whose desktop 
>> is MATE 1.26.0 . IIRC I used Synaptic to install SeaMonkey {accepting 
>> all default choices}.
>> 
>> I use SeaMonkey to read all emails and open USENET groups.
>> When I open an email with an attachment and I click on its file name, a 
>> window pops up.
>> 
>> One of its headings is "What should SeaMonkey do with this file?".
> 
> I'm on Win7.
> 
> Maybe your profile is older than the internal pdf.js viewer.
> 
> In Preferences->Browser->Helper Applications->PDF
> the default is "default" (internal viewer).
> 
> For 99% of the PDFs the internal pdf.js viewer is fine (and more safe).

of course for academic papers or other long texts I can always
Save as.. for later. But most PDFs I look at only once and forget.

ciao...

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Open PDFs from mail attachment Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-12-15 17:33 +0100
  Re: Open PDFs from mail attachment Dirk Fieldhouse <surname@gmx.net.plusremovethisandtherest.invalid> - 2025-12-19 11:11 +0000
  Re: Open PDFs from mail attachment Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-12-19 23:11 +1100
    Re: Open PDFs from mail attachment Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-12-19 14:34 +0100
      Re: Open PDFs from mail attachment Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-12-19 14:47 +0100
  Re: Open PDFs from mail attachment Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2025-12-19 08:22 -0600
    Re: Open PDFs from mail attachment Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2025-12-19 08:33 -0600
    Re: Open PDFs from mail attachment Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-12-19 15:38 +0100
      Re: Open PDFs from mail attachment Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-12-19 15:41 +0100

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