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TLDR: In Firefox:  Enter "about:config" into the address bar. Click past the warranty warning. Search for the preference "pdfjs.disabled" and make sure it's set to "false".  Enter "about:preferences#applications" into the address bar.  Search for the Content Type of either "PDF", "Portal Document File (PDF)", or "Adobe Acrobat Document" and set the Action value to "Preview in Firefox".  The Setting... This week at work, we got a couple of customer complaints about Firefox not opening PDF's on one of our web pages. The way we had the PDF open up was using an <iframe> element and setting the URL of the iframe to the source of the PDF. It worked fine in Chrome and IE11 (which are the other two major browsers we support) so what happened? I'd say the perfect storm. The Leaking Boat: Firefox Ending Support for NPAPI Plugins Back in October 2015, the Mozilla Firefox team  annou...

Disclaimer: This only works with traditional toilets with the toilet tanks that you find in residential buildings and if nothing is broken in your toilet!  TLDR: Hold down the flush lever a little longer than usual. Toilet Basics: If you're new to toilet terminology, there's a distinction between toilet tank, which is the part that houses the lever, water, and all these parts you see in diagram, and toilet bowl, which is the part you excrement goes in and out of. Here's a diagram of what my toilet tank parts looked like: Toilet tank parts diagram. Courtesy of https://removeandreplace.com/2013/09/09/fix-toilet-constantly-running-diy-toilet-repair-step-step/. So the problem: the past couple of days, I noticed one of the toilets in my home sounded like it was running a water leak constantly. After some Googling and watching toilet repair videos on Youtube, I was able to diagnose the issue - a faulty flapper (the red part in the diagram) - by lifting the toilet ...