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I would prefer the PDF reader, like the flash player, to be a plug-in that I can disable or even uninstall if I wish. In fact, in my chrome setup I have disabl
by red_admiral 10y ago
I would prefer the PDF reader, like the flash player, to be a plug-in that I can disable or even uninstall if I wish.
In fact, in my chrome setup I have disabled the PDF viewer because I prefer to download and open them in mupdf.
For PDF viewing especially, it wouldn't be impossible to hav an offering of various competing plug-ins, some perhaps offering extra features like annotations and others offering just the bare minimum.
I think firefox is held to a higher standard because "firefox user" is correlated positively with "aware of privacy issues". Those that just want something fast and easy to use might have used to use firefox instead of IE, but most of them have now moved to chrome.
- RottenHuman 10y agoI'm certain that you can disable pdf.js in about:config
- yaantc 10y agoNot even needed, just open the Preferences, select the Applications page and for PDF instead of using "Firefox preview" select any other application, or just "Ask each time". I use this to open PDF with an external PDF reader on Linux and Windows, works like a charm.
- a3_nm 10y agoIndeed, set pdfjs.disabled to true. I always do it, because I don't use pdfjs, but there was a pdfjs vulnerability that exposed local files to third-party JS -- so you might as well disable complex stuff that you don't really use.
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