Don't make us download documents just to look at them
Don't make us download documents just to look at them. Thanks😣
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Where are you encountering this behavior? Are you certain it's FamilySearch? I've been using FS all day, looking at all sorts of source documents, and haven't downloaded anything whatsoever. In fact, I don't recall ever needing to download anything for any reason from FS.
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Are you really asking:
When there is a PDF document in Memories and I want to look at it full screen size please don't make us download the PDF document into a PDF viewer just to look at it full screen but rather have the PDF document open in a new browser tab and still use the browser's built in PDF viewer.
or are you in some other part of the website?
Just to go over the situation I'm referring to and hoping I have not gotten your concern completely wrong, when using Safari, at least, clicking on a PDF document in Safari brings up the individual memory page and a portion of the page is a frame containing Safari's built in PDF viewer. To provide all the documentation connected with the memory, the PDF viewer is limited in size instead of taking over the entire tab:
At the bottom of the screen you have the usual controls to zoom in or out, to open in Preview, or download:
I would normally expect that right clicking in the viewer would bring up a contextual menu with an option to open this in a new tab, but all you get is the PDF viewer controls:
If using Firefox, you get the same behavior of the Firefox PDF viewer being embedded in the memory page:
but right clicking does give you the option of opening the frame containing the viewer in a separate tab or window:
So here the question is, does FamilySearch write their own PDF viewer with the ability to open full screen clearly evident and easily accomplished in all browsers and have to be worried about the viewer breaking every time a browser is updated? Or do they continue to stick with the built in capabilities of each browser?
If this is not what you are talking about, please post your own restatement of your request.
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If the question does relate to viewing PDFs in Memories, that's a browser setting. I don't know about Safari, but Firefox in Windows can open files in the embedded viewer, or it can let you save them and open them in Acrobat (or whatever other software you want to use). I have it set to "always ask".
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The trouble with both Safari and Firefox on my Mac is that the embedded PDF viewer is so small on the Memories page and it does not seem to be possible to move that embedded viewer to its own tab in Safari and in Firefox you need to know how to get to that secondary contextual popup menu choice. Seems like it could be easier to get a full screen image of the memories document in the browser rather then needing to shift to a second application to do so.
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