Hello robby_dobby,

I have already read the manual and have been trying various options to get over the problem. The problem is not opening a new tab. I have no problem in opening a new tab, when i set Firefox's default behavior to handle PDF as 'view in Firefox' or 'View in adobe reader'. The problem arises when i set it to 'Save link' and assign a folder to download files.

What happens in this case is that the runs the loop first time and loads the page and firefox downloads the file, and the programs just pauses there and never proceeds forward. If i add a print "reached"; statement after $mech->get() function, i do not see any output.

I want to understand why this happens

In reply to Re^2: Downloads in firefox using perl WWW::Mechanize::Firefox by pawaniitd
in thread Downloads in firefox using perl WWW::Mechanize::Firefox by pawaniitd

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