Firefox plugin recognizes PDF file as web page when open in firefox internal viewer

Hello,

the title says it all. For some pages, the connector plugin is not able to download the pdf-file properly. In these cases I download the pdf file manually. However, if I choose: "Open with Firefox" instead of "save file", the Connector plugin suggests to save as Webpage with snapshot.

Is there anything that can be done about this? Manually saving and importing a copy of file is tedious.

Cheers
  • There are two different ways to download a PDF:
    - Open it directly from the web in Firefox
    - Download and open in Firefox

    If you're able to get the website to do former, the Firefox Connector will be able to import it. Unfortunately, Zotero just can't work on File URLs pointing to your local disk, so if download and open in Firefox is the only option, then no, there's nothing Zotero can do about that.
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