Oh, well of course. Anytime you click on a link to a .pdf file it's going to open the file if you have required default reader installed.
If you have adobe set as default program for file type .pdf, which it should be set as default, and you click on a .pdf link, it should open the document only, but will not save it to your local machine. With the document opened, I believe you would have to press the Floppy Icon, or File > Save > SaveAs to actually save. And if you have the option "ask for save location", you will be prompted for location to save. If that option not selected, it will download to what ever location you have specified as the default save location. But you probably already know this.
Are you talking about any link post? They all do that for me and always have.
I have never clicked on a post that tried to download anything. Can you point one out specifically please?
Sometimes it happens with pdfs
Oh, well of course. Anytime you click on a link to a .pdf file it's going to open the file if you have required default reader installed.
If you have adobe set as default program for file type .pdf, which it should be set as default, and you click on a .pdf link, it should open the document only, but will not save it to your local machine. With the document opened, I believe you would have to press the Floppy Icon, or File > Save > SaveAs to actually save. And if you have the option "ask for save location", you will be prompted for location to save. If that option not selected, it will download to what ever location you have specified as the default save location. But you probably already know this.
Yes. I should have clarified.
The only time this happens to me is when it's a PDF. I haven't had it happen with any other link.
Mostly Catbox files and happens periodically.
Me either
I see this happen on catbox files. Click to watch and it downloads instead. Running android on a tablet.
There is an option in your browser to "always ask where to download", then you can cancel before it starts downloading.
are you using brave browser?
What posts? I haven't seen this behavior and I'm using Brave on my phone.