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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

#8242 — Open PDFs from mail attachment

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..

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#8259

On 15/12/2025 16:33, 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?

I've noticed having to refresh the page to load the PDF, so not only
you. I can't say whether it always happens.

/df

-- 
London
UK

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#8261

On 16/12/2025 3:33 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..
> 
Shouldn't whatever your system has set-up to handle 'PDF' documents open 
up??

Do you have a PDF Reader installed/selected??
-- 
Daniel70

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#8262

On 19.12.2025 13:11, Daniel70 wrote:
> On 16/12/2025 3:33 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..
>> 
> Shouldn't whatever your system has set-up to handle 'PDF' documents open 
> up??

A few years ago SM/FF added an internal pdf viewer and set that as standard
PDF viewer. That's OK for 99% of PDFs to view. You can still change to a
custom PDF viewer in the filetype handlers.

ciao..

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#8263

On 19.12.2025 14:34, Schugo wrote:
> On 19.12.2025 13:11, Daniel70 wrote:
>> On 16/12/2025 3:33 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..
>>> 
>> Shouldn't whatever your system has set-up to handle 'PDF' documents open 
>> up??
> 
> A few years ago SM/FF added an internal pdf viewer and set that as standard
> PDF viewer. That's OK for 99% of PDFs to view. You can still change to a
> custom PDF viewer in the filetype handlers.

+ it's surely less attackable, since it's written in JS.

Adobe Acrobat and FoxIt Reader regularly (especially Acrobat!)
have CRITICAL vulnerabilities (Remote Code Execution)
like 1-2 on every month's patch day.

I only use Sumatra PDF as native reader.

ciao...

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#8264

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?".

It offers two choices:
   open with selected tool  [from a drop-down list]
			OR
   save file

I suggest that if you something else, offer a more detailed description 
of what you see.

What is your OS/desktop?

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#8265

On 12/19/25 8:22 AM, 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?".
> 
> It offers two choices:
>    open with selected tool  [from a drop-down list]
>              OR
>    save file
> 
> I suggest that if you something else, offer a more detailed description 
> of what you see.
> 
> What is your OS/desktop?
> 

Just noticed from your header:
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) 

I abandoned Windows back in days of WinXP. YMMV;}

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#8266

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).

ciao...

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#8267

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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