Hang on to Your Firefox

Re:Hang on to Your Firefox by layer8 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @06:49PM (#49529338)

I’d recommend using a dedicated PDF reader in any case.

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Re:Hang on to Your Firefox by gnyeki on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @06:59PM (#49529443)

One advantage of Firefox's PDF reader is that it is sandboxed which a dedicated PDF reader typically isn't AFAIK.

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Re:Hang on to Your Firefox by jimjimjim on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @07:13PM (#49529575)

Generally speaking most dedicated PDF readers haven't implemented the nastier parts of the PDF spec that need a sandbox. Except adobe. They support everything because they wrote it. But they keep making it worse so I can't recommend them.

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Re:Hang on to Your Firefox by nosioptar on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:45AM (#49536144)

For Linux users, SELinux's sandbox command works well. (The manual isn't event two printed pages.)

I think flatpacks also have some sandboxing.

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/sandbox.8.html

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Re:Hang on to Your Firefox by TremendousJudge on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @06:53PM (#49529391)

I use SumatraPDF for reading, but it doesn't do editing. The Firefox PDF editor works perfectly fine.

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Re:Hang on to Your Firefox by kjksf on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:23AM (#49532896)

In latest pre-release it does editing too (annotations, filling out forms, extracting pages, deleting pages etc.)

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