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I'd actually consider browser pdf viewers safer than a standalone native app. Firefox uses pdfjs, a pure javascript pdf implementation running inside a battle-t

by pheug 6y ago

I'd actually consider browser pdf viewers safer than a standalone native app. Firefox uses pdfjs, a pure javascript pdf implementation running inside a battle-tested browser javascript sandbox. No unsafe native pdf code with countless holes.

pjmlp 6y ago
They have long adopted Chrome's C++ one, given performance complaints.
- dwohnitmok 6y ago
  Did they? I thought they explicitly rejected it. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1049218 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1049218
- rebelwebmaster 6y ago
  Incorrect, that was abandoned and pdf.js is very-much what's being used.
- deleted 6y ago
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- aseipp 6y ago
  No it does not, Firefox still uses PDF.js. This is extremely easy to verify by just right clicking and hitting "Inspect Element" on any PDF opened in Firefox (and also you can then just load PDF.js into Chrome on a page, load a pdf into that, and verify the same behavior.)
  - pjmlp 6y ago
    I stand corrected then.