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Firefox 106

42 points by NiekvdMaas 4y ago

netule 4y ago
> It is now possible to edit PDFs: including writing text, drawing, and adding signatures. That's a fantastic feature. No more Adobe Acrobat for me!
- azatom 4y ago
  Still does not handle digital signature. Why? Over a decade ago if someone asks editing or something like the lock in the adressbar for https comes sooner for pdfs.. (libreoffice or ubuntu's pdfsig command shows the signature and check its validity) On the other hand this is the only browser showing its attachment.
  - cweagans 4y ago
    From the release notes: > It is now possible to edit PDFs: including writing text, drawing, and **adding signatures**.
    - azatom 4y ago
      I do not find more details about that. BI tried the editing (so the update happend), and I guessed it is not "digital", but something like drawing a signature. Test with a gov. signed pdf, other tools show the sig correctly, firefox nothing. (Address bar shows a shield that it is not tracking for not signed too. The menu has a pdf details which show nothing relevant.)
      - cweagans 4y ago
        Are you talking about cryptographic signatures? That's a different thing - one that I expect very few people care about (or even know about, for that matter).
        azatom 4y ago
        Without cryptography the digital signature makes no sense, everywhere it is called digital. But proably you are "right". Https became a thing because big companies needed the online thing, and it has to be secure. Pdf is one of last remnant of an era, called offline, so it is an enemy. And Mozilla is not an independet thing.
        cweagans 4y ago
        > Without cryptography the digital signature makes no sense Outside of the HN bubble, people are still happily scribbling ink on paper and calling it legally binding, blissfully unaware of the existence of a mechanism to mathematically prove that a specific person/key was responsible for that particular signature. Even as someone who is aware of that, I've never had to cryptographically sign a PDF. Ever. I've either dropped a scanned image of my handwritten signature onto a PDF and re-exported it or in rare/annoying cases where it's "required", printed out the document, physically signed it with a pen, scanned it, and passed it along to whoever is making me jump through those hoops.
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N19PEDL2 4y ago
> Setting Firefox as your default browser now also makes it the default PDF application on Windows systems. But I'm fine with Sumatra. I would prefer it to ask for confirmation instead of doing it automatically.
- Normille 4y ago
  >I would prefer it to ask for confirmation instead of doing it automatically... Not on Windows, so it doesn't affect me. But I agree with you. One of my major annoyances is having to go preference diving becasue some application which I've just updated has added a new 'feature' [which I don't want] and has enabled it by default --instead of asking me "XXX can now do YYY. Do you want to enable this?" Strangely enough, browsers seem particularly prone to doing this.
entrepy123 4y ago
TIDAL's web player (listen.tidal.com) started working again in Firefox v106 on macOS for me (unlike in v105, where the incompatibility seemed to exist). Way to go!
torstenvl 4y ago
I guess I'm still waiting for Firefox to be usably fast. Try going here in Firefox vs. any other browser: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1605/text https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/160...
- Yaina 4y ago
  I feel like that is a very specific issue with the congress.gov website. Probably worth filing a bug about that!
fortran77 4y ago
> Setting Firefox as your default browser now also makes it the default PDF application on Windows systems. This is not very nice.
- Yaina 4y ago
  Well, for most Windows users the default PDF application is...Edge, so I think that is reasonable actually. I feel like I could even make an argument how Microsoft is forcing Mozilla's hand here, by showing regularly showing prompts asking people to switch to Edge... I mean use "Microsoft's recommended Browser settings".

42 points by NiekvdMaas 4y ago

> It is now possible to edit PDFs: including writing text, drawing, and adding signatures. That's a fantastic feature. No more Adobe Acrobat for me!

azatom 4y ago
Still does not handle digital signature. Why? Over a decade ago if someone asks editing or something like the lock in the adressbar for https comes sooner for pdfs.. (libreoffice or ubuntu's pdfsig command shows the signature and check its validity) On the other hand this is the only browser showing its attachment.
- cweagans 4y ago
  From the release notes: > It is now possible to edit PDFs: including writing text, drawing, and **adding signatures**.
  - azatom 4y ago
    I do not find more details about that. BI tried the editing (so the update happend), and I guessed it is not "digital", but something like drawing a signature. Test with a gov. signed pdf, other tools show the sig correctly, firefox nothing. (Address bar shows a shield that it is not tracking for not signed too. The menu has a pdf details which show nothing relevant.)
    - cweagans 4y ago
      Are you talking about cryptographic signatures? That's a different thing - one that I expect very few people care about (or even know about, for that matter).
      - azatom 4y ago
        Without cryptography the digital signature makes no sense, everywhere it is called digital. But proably you are "right". Https became a thing because big companies needed the online thing, and it has to be secure. Pdf is one of last remnant of an era, called offline, so it is an enemy. And Mozilla is not an independet thing.
        cweagans 4y ago
        > Without cryptography the digital signature makes no sense Outside of the HN bubble, people are still happily scribbling ink on paper and calling it legally binding, blissfully unaware of the existence of a mechanism to mathematically prove that a specific person/key was responsible for that particular signature. Even as someone who is aware of that, I've never had to cryptographically sign a PDF. Ever. I've either dropped a scanned image of my handwritten signature onto a PDF and re-exported it or in rare/annoying cases where it's "required", printed out the document, physically signed it with a pen, scanned it, and passed it along to whoever is making me jump through those hoops.

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N19PEDL2 4y ago

> Setting Firefox as your default browser now also makes it the default PDF application on Windows systems. But I'm fine with Sumatra. I would prefer it to ask for confirmation instead of doing it automatically.

Normille 4y ago
>I would prefer it to ask for confirmation instead of doing it automatically... Not on Windows, so it doesn't affect me. But I agree with you. One of my major annoyances is having to go preference diving becasue some application which I've just updated has added a new 'feature' [which I don't want] and has enabled it by default --instead of asking me "XXX can now do YYY. Do you want to enable this?" Strangely enough, browsers seem particularly prone to doing this.

entrepy123 4y ago

TIDAL's web player (listen.tidal.com) started working again in Firefox v106 on macOS for me (unlike in v105, where the incompatibility seemed to exist). Way to go!

torstenvl 4y ago

I guess I'm still waiting for Firefox to be usably fast. Try going here in Firefox vs. any other browser: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1605/text https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/160...

Yaina 4y ago
I feel like that is a very specific issue with the congress.gov website. Probably worth filing a bug about that!

fortran77 4y ago

> Setting Firefox as your default browser now also makes it the default PDF application on Windows systems. This is not very nice.

Yaina 4y ago
Well, for most Windows users the default PDF application is...Edge, so I think that is reasonable actually. I feel like I could even make an argument how Microsoft is forcing Mozilla's hand here, by showing regularly showing prompts asking people to switch to Edge... I mean use "Microsoft's recommended Browser settings".