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Open in Browser by Rob W, Sylvain Pasche, est31

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Review by Ed
by Ed, 5 years ago
40 reviews
  • by Souzah, 2 months ago
    ótima extensão, evita de ter que baixar um arquivo que não seja necessário armazená-lo
  • by Firefox user 18535499, 3 months ago
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  • by Firefox user 18370150, 7 months ago
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  • by timur g, 2 years ago
    Looks bad for me, I guess because of using CustomCSSforFx.
  • by coth, 3 years ago
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  • by Averi, 3 years ago
  • by John Homebrew, 4 years ago
  • by mmouterde, 4 years ago
  • by sinekonata, 4 years ago
    You save our lives. Thank you.
  • by cloudrac3r, 4 years ago
    Extremely handy for opening XML, audio and video directly in Firefox instead of having to save it, then use another application. A must-have.
  • by cosmo, 4 years ago
    Finally, I can inspect yaml files without downloading them. Thank you!
  • by Ory Band, 4 years ago
    EDIT: Developer replied, I might be doing something wrong. Will wait for Firefox 78 to see if this is fixed.

    Original review: Doesn't open Gmail PDFs. Just re-opens "preview in Firefox" pop-up over and over again. Doesn't work.

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    Works for me when I open the attachment in a new tab (e.g. via the contextmenu).

    Do you have any other extensions or special configuration that may affect Gmail or PDFs?

    And since you're mentioning PDF files: Firefox 78 has a new option in the download dialog to view PDF files directly in the browser. It looks like this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773942#c28

    EDIT: To clarify, my comment about Firefox 78 is independent of your original review. If the extension doesn't work, open a bug report on Github or send me an email. I pointed to the upcoming new feature of Firefox, in case you only installed this extension to open PDF files directly in the browser (and no other file types). If that is the case, then you don't need the extension any more in Firefox 78+ because of the built-in functionality.
  • by Jacques BALEMEYA, 5 years ago
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  • by the21st, 5 years ago
    Why does this addon need my browsing history?

    Developer response

    posted 5 years ago
    The need for permissions is explained here: https://github.com/Rob--W/open-in-browser/issues/62

    Side note: browsing history is a relatively harmless permission. You should be much more concerned when an add-on asks for "Access your data for all websites".
  • by Firefox user 13536012, 5 years ago
    does not work reliably in full screen mode under mac os
  • by Firefox user 13445875, 5 years ago
  • by grahamperrin, 5 years ago
    Five stars for legacy version 1.18 – tested OK with Waterfox Classic with the URLs below, which were problematic with alternative extensions:

    https://github.com/progit/progit2/releases/download/2.1.109/progit.pdf

    https://www.st.com/resource/en/datasheet/stusb4500.pdf

    https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=62684

    I assume that version 2.9 for Firefox Quantum is equally good.

    My previous review:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20191209154542/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/open-in-browser/reviews/902033/
  • by Firefox user 15316986, 5 years ago
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  • by allan999, 5 years ago
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