TW5: opening local pdf files from TW in Firefox on Android

[Mark]

Apologies if this has been discusses previously; my attempts at search proved futile.

Running TW5 on Ubuntu/Firefox. TW resides in its own directory; images, documents, pdf files, audio, etc., are kept in subdirectories and externally linked.

I can copy the TW directory to my Android tablet (also running Firefox with TFox extention). Everything works well except trying to open a PDF file from a link in a tiddler from Firefox on Adroid. "Unable to download file" is the consistent error message.

Is there a workaround?
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Mark

[Birthe C]

Hi Mark,

You are asked to download the pdf file, because you miss a pdf Viewer plugin for Firefox on Android.


Birthe

[Mark]

So the short answer is that Firefox for Android can't do what I'm asking it to do.

A kludgy workaround: write the code so that it displays the text "Open PDF". Knowing that it's a .pdf, I can hold the link to bring up the "right click" menu. The last choice is "Open With an App" -- this brings up the various PDF viewers. Not elegant, but it works.

[TonyM]

Can you do what was implied above and install a PDF viewer in Firefox for andriod. I can view pdf files in Google drives PDF viewer from Firefox.

Regards
Tony