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Provide option to choose an application when handling .pdf files #8590

Open ToddAndMargo opened 4 years ago

ToddAndMargo commented 4 years ago

Request for Enhancement:

May we please have the option to open a PDF in an external browser, as does Firefox and Vivaldi?

Many thanks, -T

rebron commented 4 years ago

Hi @ToddAndMargo

It's a bit of a buried setting but you can toggle this setting and you'll be able to open PDFs in an external pdf viewer.

brave://settings/content/pdfDocuments

ToddAndMargo commented 4 years ago

On 2020-03-09 09:24, Rafael Ebron wrote:

Hi @ToddAndMargo https://github.com/ToddAndMargo

It's a bit of a buried setting but you can toggle this setting and you'll be able to open PDFs in an external pdf viewer.

brave://settings/content/pdfDocuments

Hi Rafael,

I wrote it down to carry with me to customer sites. Thank you!

Any chance of making it easier to find?

-T

ToddAndMargo commented 4 years ago

Hi Rafael,

That is a nice setting if yo always want to save a pdf to disk.

It is also not what I asked for. I want the open to open the PDF in an external viewer from Brave, as does Firefox and Vivaldi, not just download the file.

Please reopen this request

rebron commented 4 years ago

@ToddAndMargo I understand the request, choose application for file handling of .pdf files.

ToddAndMargo commented 4 years ago

On 2020-03-16 16:36, Rafael Ebron wrote:

@ToddAndMargo https://github.com/ToddAndMargo I understand the request, choose application for file handling of .pdf files.

Hi Rafael,

I am not sure I am understand. Did I miss a function that is already there, again, or are you placing the request to add the feature?

Many thanks, -T

rebron commented 4 years ago

@ToddAndMargo This particular feature isn't there, I'm adding some more clairity to the feature request. It's basically protocol and file handling so for mailto: open x application, for .pdf open pdf viewer or acrobat, etc.

It's related to sites asking to be handlers for things like mailto: or calendar links. Firefox has better ui for it, it's an old feature.

e.g. brave://settings/handlers or in Firefox

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ToddAndMargo commented 4 years ago

Perfect!

federerfanatic commented 4 years ago

I am currently using Version 1.7.98 Chromium: 81.0.4044.113 (Official Build) (64-bit), on lsb_release -a LSB Version: core-11.0.1ubuntu1-noarch:security-11.0.1ubuntu1-noarch Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 19.10 Release: 19.10 Codename: eoan

BRAVE has suddenly refused to run the system pdf viewer. It always opens it in BRAVE. I currently have brave://settings/content/pdfDocuments?search=pdf to Download file. I also allow myself to choose save location. I also set mimeopen --ask on a pdf file and told it to use okular which I regard as my system viewer

EmyrMacdonald commented 4 years ago

I download 20-30 pdf files per day, opening and editing each. I need to be able to open pdf's directly with an external viewer/editor rather than opening within the browser. Currently, I use Firefox for this reason alone. Brave is extremely attractive as a browser, but until there is a capability to open pdf's with an external viewer, it won't be my default browser.

ToddAndMargo commented 4 years ago

Hi Emyr Macdonald,

If you want to use a Blink based browser with this feature, Vivaldi has it. I have had to switch several customers to Vivaldi over this very issue. I would have used Firefox, but too many of their business to business portals no longer work with Firefox. Vivaldi does take a little getting use to though.

-T

EmyrMacdonald commented 4 years ago

Many thanks Todd. Best, EmyrSent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message --------From: ToddAndMargo notifications@github.com Date: 16/05/2020 23:14 (GMT+00:00) To: brave/brave-browser brave-browser@noreply.github.com Cc: EmyrMacdonald emyr.macdonald@gmail.com, Comment comment@noreply.github.com Subject: Re: [brave/brave-browser] RFE: provide option to choose an application when handling .pdf files (#8590) Hi Emyr Macdonald, If you want to use a Blink based browser with this feature, Vivaldi has it. I have had to switch several customers to Vivaldi over this very issue. I would have used Firefox, but too many of their business to business portals no longer work with Firefox. Vivaldi does take a little getting use to though. -T

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ToddAndMargo commented 3 years ago

Hi Guys,

This has become a YUGE issue with my customers. Would you please jump on it as soon as possible! It is very difficult to keep them off of Chrome, etc. after they find this ability is missing in Brave Browser. Would you please put this at the top of your list!

Many thanks, -T

ToddAndMargo commented 3 years ago

I have a customer who can not log into DropBox with Chrome. I can't figure it out -- it works on every other browser (a complete Chrome reset did not even work). Firefox does not work properly on too many of her web sites, so Blink Engine it is. I put her on Brave, where DropBox works perfectly. And she instantly tripped across this defect. Now she is on the absolute war path over it. I can put her on Vivaldi, which does not have this defect, but Vivaldi is too intensely complicated for her. Please, please hurry up and fix this!!!!

ToddAndMargo commented 3 years ago

Several customer back is dealing with a government procurement portal with a lot of PDF's. He need to use an external view as the PDF are badly formed and difficult to view properly in a browser. I had to switch to Vivaldi over this issue. This is what he said to me "When I [expletive] click on a [expletive] PDF, I want the [expletive] to [expletive] open up and when I click [expletive] print, I want it to [expletive] print." He was pretty mad to say the least. He would not put up with the download and open method in Brave. To customers, they DO NOT CARE if things are done differently, in Brave. They only want what they expect the behavior to be. And they really, really do not appreciate extra steps that they refuse to learn.

ToddAndMargo commented 3 years ago

I just got off a Go To Assist session with a customer that needs to fill out a government certification every week. It won't function properly in Firefox, but does in Blink. The end game is a PDF, but it won't display properly in Brave, so I switched her to download rather than open. It displays properly in Acrobat Reader. She said she understood how, but her voice was confused. So ... (At least there was no cussing this time.)

ToddAndMargo commented 3 years ago

Hi Guys,

The lack of this feature is DRIVING MY CUSTOMERS CRAZY and off Brave. Would some kind hearted developer please implement this as soon as possible?

Many thanks, -T

EmyrMacdonald commented 3 years ago

I’m another who has left Brave because of its inability to open pdf files in an external viewer. For any research use, this is imperative.

Regards

Emyr

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Hi Guys,

The lack of this feature is DRIVING MY CUSTOMERS CRAZY and off Brave. Would some kind hearted developer please implement this as soon as possible?

Many thanks, -T

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MEKadan commented 2 years ago

It still isn't implemented!?! Because G*gle is so fcking sh*t these days, could not find inf on the features I was missing before installation, I had to just install & try. Those features on top of list being opening pdf in external reader and multi-row tabs.

Anyway, have fun. Goodbye & uninstalling (again)