From: schugo@schugo.de   
      
   On 19.12.2025 15:38, Schugo wrote:   
   > On 19.12.2025 15:22, Richard Owlett wrote:   
   >> On 12/15/25 10:33 AM, Schugo wrote:   
   >>> Hi!   
   >>>   
   >>> when I click on a PDF attachment the browser opens a blank page.   
   >>> When I press ENTER in the urlbar the preview shows up.   
   >>> Only me or a bug?   
   >>>   
   >>> ciao..   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Why do refer at all to "the browser opening a window"?   
   >> What program are you using to read the email?   
   >>   
   >> I have SeaMonkey 2.53.21 installed on a Debian 12.8 system whose desktop   
   >> is MATE 1.26.0 . IIRC I used Synaptic to install SeaMonkey {accepting   
   >> all default choices}.   
   >>   
   >> I use SeaMonkey to read all emails and open USENET groups.   
   >> When I open an email with an attachment and I click on its file name, a   
   >> window pops up.   
   >>   
   >> One of its headings is "What should SeaMonkey do with this file?".   
   >   
   > I'm on Win7.   
   >   
   > Maybe your profile is older than the internal pdf.js viewer.   
   >   
   > In Preferences->Browser->Helper Applications->PDF   
   > the default is "default" (internal viewer).   
   >   
   > For 99% of the PDFs the internal pdf.js viewer is fine (and more safe).   
      
   of course for academic papers or other long texts I can always   
   Save as.. for later. But most PDFs I look at only once and forget.   
      
   ciao...   
      
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