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Re:Show HN: Scholarref tools – never deal with journal webpa... by JorgeGT on Friday November 15, 2019 @02:21PM (#21547858)
> clicking the "Download PDF" link should redirect the user to an unusable in-browser PDF viewer

Pro tip: in Elsevier's case, middle-click the "Download PDF" link so it opens in a new tab. Briefly avoid switching to that tab until it does some redirects. Voilà, you get the actual PDF instead of the stupid viewer.

This looks like fantastic software btw, I wish more people would release their tools as old school POSIX-style shell scripts instead of asking for hundreds of MBs of dependencies or fancy electron GUIs.

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Re:Show HN: Scholarref tools – never deal with journal webpa... by btrettel on Friday November 15, 2019 @04:17PM (#21548853)
Which browser are you using for the Elsevier trick? This doesn't work for me in Firefox.

Edit: Middle click doesn't work for me in Firefox, but opening in a new tab via the right-click menu does.

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