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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by geraltofrivia on Saturday December 16, 2017 @08:03PM (#15943287)
Ideally, yeah. But often PDFs are integrated with the web experience as another web page. Or atleast that's how I treat them. I have 2-5 research papers open in my tabs at all times, and I browse through them like I would with any other article.

Sure if it piques my interest I would download it, organize it but I wouldn't go through the pains of doing that for every pdf I lay my eyes upon.

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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by superkuh on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @03:24PM (#15973441)
>download it, organize it but I wouldn't go through the pains of doing that for every pdf I lay my eyes upon.

You don't have to do that. Just set your browser to open the file in a real application. It'll automagically download to some temp dir (ie, /tmp) and you won't have to care about file paths or organization at all (unless you want to).

I have tens of research papers open in my tabs at all times. But for a good experience reading I open the full text in my pdf reader.

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