Ubuntu 20.04, Firefox pdf save dialog

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 3 May 2022 07:54:05 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> When I open an PDF in firefox, there is a buttton in the top right corner to
> save the file. When I click this button, a dialog opens which allows me to
> save the file.
> 
> In older version, this dialog was a separet window. The new dialog darkens the
> open document and is placed in the middle of the document, hiding most of
> it. When I try to move this dialog out of the way, the surrounding window with
> the darkened document is moved.
> 
> How would I get the old behaviour, so that this dialog woud be opened in a
> separete window which I can move around undependently from the document
> window?

Use an old outdated version of firefox :-(.

You can't fix this and still use the current FF pdf viewer. You can go into
Settings=>Applications and change the PDF application to something else or to
just download the file.

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 

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