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PDF-Direct by Matti Vuorre

Redirects academic journal fancy PDF viewers to direct file downloads.

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Firefox extension to skip journals' "enhanced" PDF viewers to direct PDF downloads.
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Required permissions:

  • Access your data for sites in the acs.org domain
  • Access your data for sites in the cambridge.org domain
  • Access your data for sites in the ieee.org domain
  • Access your data for sites in the jstor.org domain
  • Access your data for sites in the nature.com domain
  • Access your data for sites in the oup.com domain
  • Access your data for sites in the plos.org domain
  • Access your data for sites in the pnas.org domain
  • Access your data for sites in the royalsocietypublishing.org domain
  • Access your data for sites in the sagepub.com domain
  • Access your data for sites in the sciencedirect.com domain
  • Access your data for sites in the springer.com domain
  • Access your data for sites in the tandfonline.com domain
  • Access your data for sites in the wiley.com domain
  • Access your data for sites in the oclc.org domain

Data collection:

  • The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection.
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Version
1.3.2
Size
2 MB
Last updated
6 days ago (14 Oct 2025)
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MIT Licence
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