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Re:Firefox 80 by pjmlp on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:23PM (#24274355)
They have long adopted Chrome's C++ one, given performance complaints.
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Re:Firefox 80 by aseipp on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:44PM (#24274600)
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.)
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Re:Firefox 80 by pjmlp on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @04:33PM (#24275782)
I stand corrected then.
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Re:Firefox 80 by dwohnitmok on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:42PM (#24274574)
Did they? I thought they explicitly rejected it.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1049218

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Re:Firefox 80 by rebelwebmaster on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:44PM (#24274590)
Incorrect, that was abandoned and pdf.js is very-much what's being used.
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