Re:Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms
by derefr on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:58AM
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I like that single-page PDFs stay in the browser. I don’t want to keep them; I just want to see them. Like any other web-page. I want to be able to hit back, or close the tab, and continue on with my day.
And I also like that I can preview long-form PDFs in the browser, before choosing whether to save them and read them “for real.”
Imagine if every time you opened a direct-linked JPEG image in your browser, it treated it as an attachment, downloading it and opening it in your external image-previewer app, rather than rendering it as a synthesized HTML DOM wrapper around the image. Wouldn’t you be annoyed by how cluttered your Downloads directory would get with random files you never actually wanted to save?
And I also like that I can preview long-form PDFs in the browser, before choosing whether to save them and read them “for real.”
Imagine if every time you opened a direct-linked JPEG image in your browser, it treated it as an attachment, downloading it and opening it in your external image-previewer app, rather than rendering it as a synthesized HTML DOM wrapper around the image. Wouldn’t you be annoyed by how cluttered your Downloads directory would get with random files you never actually wanted to save?