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Re:Firefox: Announcing Project Mortar by eridius on Friday September 30, 2016 @03:55PM (#12614859)
Agreed. As an OS X user, I hate it any time a browser or website uses something like PDF.js instead of the native PDF support. The native PDF support in OS X is fast and excellent.
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Re:Firefox: Announcing Project Mortar by dmix on Friday September 30, 2016 @05:53PM (#12615492)
> instead of the native PDF support

You mean instead of just downloading the file? Or does Preview support opening PDF links.

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Re:Firefox: Announcing Project Mortar by eridius on Friday September 30, 2016 @06:23PM (#12615600)
Safari will display PDFs natively without requiring you to download it to disk.
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Re:Firefox: Announcing Project Mortar by hellofunk on Friday September 30, 2016 @07:03PM (#12615751)
And on iOS too!
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Re:Firefox: Announcing Project Mortar by om2 on Saturday October 01, 2016 @02:07AM (#12616701)
And fully sandboxed on both macOS and iOS!
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Re:Firefox: Announcing Project Mortar by taspeotis on Friday September 30, 2016 @08:33PM (#12616019)
Care of QLPreviewController [1], something I wish Android had an equivalent for...

[1] https://developer.apple.com/reference/quicklook/qlpreviewcon...

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Re:Firefox: Announcing Project Mortar by the_watcher on Friday September 30, 2016 @06:27PM (#12615617)
Preview does support opening PDF links.
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