Pdf forces save / download instead of loading view in brave browser tab

Description of the issue:
Clicking link in web page forces download of pdf rather than opening in new tab for viewing.

Settings are already set to

Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3.

  1. paste sample from this url bar and press enter
    https://getsamplefiles.com/download/pdf/sample-1.pdf

Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):
browser opens download page

Expected result:
to load and display pdf in same tab.

Reproduces how often:

Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu):
1.67.134 Chromium: 126.0.6478.186 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Additional Information:

I belive this is something to do with headers that are passed by the website when responding

content-disposition: attachment; filename=sample-1.pdf

Feels like there should be a way to instruct browser to ignore this header and open a file instead of forcing me to download it?

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