PDF Files Not Downloading

[Peter Creasey]

If you are saying that you can no longer view pdf pages in your SeaMonkey browser

No, Adobe Reader does work fine for me. What I was asking about was recently at a certain website, when I tried to launch a PDF file from that website, the website responded that my browser apparently can't/won't allow launching a PDF file. I've never had this problem before or since so I was expressing my curiosity as to what might have been causing this.

[v_v]

Peter,

I am going to take a wild guess, and that would be that that particular web site may be used to sniffing or programmed to sniff for browsers that have "native" pdf viewing capabilities built in. Because lots of web sites do not recognize SeaMonkey perhaps they do not know what to think!, plus the fact that SeaMonkey currently needs an extension to view pdf files in the browser itself. Of course it also depends on what you really mean by "launching a pdf file." Do you remember and can you post a link to the web site?

v_v

[TPR75]

What I was asking about was recently at a certain website, when I tried to launch a PDF file from that website, the website responded that my browser apparently can't/won't allow launching a PDF file.

Some websites will not allow to download PDF files (for some reasons) and to view them in external application (e.g. Adobe Reader) it must be downloaded first (regardless you can see download dialog or not). It must be displayed "as image"/"embedded". Here is example:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=3058871

That's why you need "PDF Viewer" extension:
https://github.com/IsaacSchemm/pdf.js-s ... /releases/

[Peter Creasey]

Thanks, guys, for the good info. Hopefully, that explains what I'm vaguely recalling the situation to be.

[baumgrenze]

Thank you, frg, for yesterday's reply.

I used ZTreeWin (file manager) and searched on my system disk under
C:\Users\MyName\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\….
and found all the *.json files. I've listed them below:

C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\lXXX.default\crashes\store.json.mozlz4
C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\lXXX.default\crashes\store.json.mozlz4
C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\lXXX.default\addonStartup.json.lz4
C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\lXXX.default\memory-report.json.gz
C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Crash Reports\pending\1a00cfbc-1a8e-48e7-9713-34835bb437a3.memory.json.gz
C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\lXXX.default\minidumps\cd0c96fe-1bdf-4774-9328-ca24bfe57d6b.memory.json.gz
C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\pnacl\0.57.44.2492\_platform_specific\x86_64\pnacl_public_pnacl_json
C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\lXXX.default\jetpack\firefox@ghostery.com\simple-storage\store.json.bk

As you can see, both handlers.json and downloads.json are absent. Is this a clue to a way forward?

thanks,
baumgrenze

Also, I tried to quote your post to better locate my reply to you, but I was logged out when I tried to submit. The error message said I could not quote without being logged in. A Catch 22 sequence followed.

[TPR75]

I used ZTreeWin (file manager) and searched on my system disk under
C:\Users\MyName\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\….
and found all the *.json files. I've listed them below:

C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\lXXX.default\addonStartup.json.lz4
C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\lXXX.default\memory-report.json.gz
[...]
As you can see, both handlers.json and downloads.json are absent. Is this a clue to a way forward?

I liked Norton Commander back in MS-DOS times but using similar thing on modern OS... WOW! You're truly "orthodox"...

I can imagine work without Total Commander (42$ for lifetime license) but I don't want to. But this OFM is pretty modern comparing to ZTreeWin (BTW last stable build is 10 years old).

I hope you did searching wrong because there MUST be more JSON files. Even deleted they will be restored with default values.

Make test but avoid using ZTreeWin. Click START button and then find RUN and click it. In new window paste this:

Code: Select all

%APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\

... and hit ENTER or click OK.

You should see (all) your profile(-s) folder(-s). Open that one you're using and "visually" search for "handler.json" file.

BTW You can't post or reply here without being logged-in. It's not "Catch 22" case. It's basic rule.

[baumgrenze]

Thanks for your reply, TPR75

I tried working with your suggestion and decided it was easier to rerun the ZTreeWin search after a good night's sleep.

Here's an Imgur link to what I found. I underlined the handlers.json and downloads.json files in red.

https://imgur.com/a/ikYgYbq

I opened 'downloads.json' in WordPad and selected the text associated with the first entry. It was a 'failed' download. Perhaps it is longer than it needs to be. I selected the string "source" as an entry separation term in the log.

I've pasted it below hoping it might offer clues.

{"list":[{"source":"https://blueridgeprism.org/wp-content/u ... h":"D:\\My Documents\\DownloadsTempMD\\Autumn-Olive-Factsheet-2021-9-9-FINAL.pdf","partFilePath":"D:\\My Documents\\DownloadsTempMD\\Autumn-Olive-Factsheet-2021-9-9-FINAL.pdf.part"},"saver":{"type":"copy","entityID":"%226145072a-96518%22/615704/Fri, 17 Sep 2021 21:22:50 GMT"},"errorObj":{"result":2147500037,"message":"[Exception... \"Failure\" nsresult: \"0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)\" location: \"JS frame :: resource://gre/modules/DownloadCore.jsm :: this.DownloadError :: line 1507\" data: no]","becauseSourceFailed":false,"becauseTargetFailed":false,"becauseBlocked":false,"becauseBlockedByParentalControls":false,"becauseBlockedByReputationCheck":false,"becauseBlockedByRuntimePermissions":false,"reputationCheckVerdict":""},"startTime":"2021-10-25T21:54:24.837Z","totalBytes":615704,"hasPartialData":true,"tryToKeepPartialData":true,"contentType":"application/pdf"},{"source":"

thanks
baumgrenze

[baumgrenze]

After my previous post ( 26 Dec 2021, 09:55 ) I went to

https://github.com/IsaacSchemm/pdf.js-s ... /releases/

and installed PDF Viewer 2.3.235

As suggested earlier in this thread:

TPR75 » 23 Dec 2021, 00:09

Now everything works as it did before.

Thank you, TPR75 for your patience with a white bearded old man.

baumgrenze

[TPR75]

Now everything works as it did before.

Thank you, TPR75 for your patience with a white bearded old man.

You're welcome!

BTW Next time you'll post some code here please use "

Code: Select all

" - it will help keep proper size (right now this page is to wide). Actually you can edit your post and mark that text and press "Code" button. Use "Preview" button below to check it before "Submit".

[baumgrenze]

Here is the 'too wide' text of the last entry in downloads.json reformatted to fit properly.

Would it have been better form to eliminate the 'line numbers' and generate text that is more readable?

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Here it is with the line numbers removed and the line length limited.

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thanks,
baumgrenze

[therube]

I can['t] imagine work without Total Commander

Likewise with my, Altap Salamander 4.0 - Freeware.

[baumgrenze]

I discovered the original XTree (DOS based) in the mid-1980's. The simple ability to search several hard drives and see everything on them sorted according to multiple parameters saved me a great deal of grief.
At the time I was using a Tektronix terminal simulator called EMUTek to run online database searches. From time to time the record of the search was saved in an arbitrarily chosen file folder. XTree sorted by date always
presented the results near the top in the default date sorted order. I was delighted to learn that it had been rewritten for Windows and maintained so that it is still a functional way to quickly search multiple drives at one time.

There exists a loyal forum based problem solving resource.

Don't disparage it because it of its DOS-like appearance.