Bug 432696

Summary:	unable to disable internal pdf viewer
Product:	[Applications] Falkon	Reporter:	kavol <kavol>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Rosca <nowrep>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	arojas
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description kavol 2021-02-09 18:00:06 UTC

SUMMARY
Falkon does not provide any way to disable the internal pdf viewer. This is very annoying and frustrating, if I should stay polite ...

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. search for some pdf
2. clink the link

OBSERVED RESULT
pseudo address like
chrome-extension://mhjfbmdgcfjbbpaeojofohoefgiehjai/index.html?file.pdf
is opened and the document content is displayed

no option to save file available - see also bug 428106

EXPECTED RESULT
the usual file dialogue appears, just like with other "non web" files, which offers to open the file via the default application, to choose another appplication or to save the file

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.77.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.77.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Trying to search how to work around this, it looks like Chrome has a special option for disabling the built-in viewer. I haven't found anything like this in Falkon, and, in addition, I think it should be disabled by default because the system default viewer is usually far superior - why does the browser integrate its own PDF viewer in the first place??? Just because Google now uses the same practices as Microsoft did (and for which it was punished by various antitrust offices) everyone has to follow the suit and bring the same misery to the users?

Comment 1 Antonio Rojas 2021-02-09 18:04:32 UTC

Already done in 90664879c51167eac792139ae65a48da11268244

Comment 2 kavol 2021-02-09 20:25:30 UTC

(In reply to Antonio Rojas from comment #1)
> Already done in 90664879c51167eac792139ae65a48da11268244

cool, thanks!

... now only if a new version would be released

(also, it'd be nice if the KDE bugzilla workflow would reflect that although the patch exists, the bug is still not resolved in production ...)

Comment 3 Antonio Rojas 2021-02-09 20:42:46 UTC

Note that you can get the same effect in the released version by disabling Pepper plugins