No no no, I had to open the downloaded ‘PDF’ to my device, then open it with a hex editor, to discover it was actually in HTML format, to request my age and ID first.
The page never outright even loaded, I just discovered that because I know how to use a hex editor. The page never loaded properly in either format, neither PDF nor HTML.
I figured it out, it’s apparently a bug in the Jerboa for Lemmy app. Jerboa sees PDF and tries to open my default PDF viewer rather than my web browser Fennec.
When I copy the link and paste it directly in Fennec, it works as expected, but when I tap the link in Jerboa, it’s blindly trying to open it with a PDF app, which gives the Invalid Format error.
A MaxWest tablet, stock Android 11, but never signed into Google. No Chrome here, I used to use Firefox, until they started adopting AI tech, so now I use the more privacy focused fork, Fennec.
No no no, I had to open the downloaded ‘PDF’ to my device, then open it with a hex editor, to discover it was actually in HTML format, to request my age and ID first.
The page never outright even loaded, I just discovered that because I know how to use a hex editor. The page never loaded properly in either format, neither PDF nor HTML.
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browserfennec, and addons?I figured it out, it’s apparently a bug in the Jerboa for Lemmy app. Jerboa sees PDF and tries to open my default PDF viewer rather than my web browser Fennec.
When I copy the link and paste it directly in Fennec, it works as expected, but when I tap the link in Jerboa, it’s blindly trying to open it with a PDF app, which gives the Invalid Format error.
Incredible.
Please make a bug report.
Edit: I see you did
Already done my fellow Lemming…
https://lemmy.world/post/42576064
Thank you in the meantime for actually being helpful 👍
A MaxWest tablet, stock Android 11, but never signed into Google. No Chrome here, I used to use Firefox, until they started adopting AI tech, so now I use the more privacy focused fork, Fennec.