Firefox blocks importing PDFs opened in the viewer
Firefox blocks the importer on PDFs opened in the browser viewer, so those PDFs cannot be saved to the library.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 8 January 2020 · last reported 1 February 2026
What's going wrong
Researchers using the Mendeley Web Importer in Firefox report that PDFs open in a browser tab cannot be added to their library.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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