• strcrssd@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    But why? There’s no need for a PDF editor in a browser. This is just raising the size and lowering the performance of a browser for a feature that almost no one needs or wants.

    Mozilla should probably build a PDF viewer/editor (Adobe sucks and Foxit has gone downhill in recent years), but it’s not part of Firefox.

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      7 months ago

      I actually like this a lot. Why not make computer things easy for people using them? In environments where people send forms as non-editable .pdf files, this is great!

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Not needing to pay money just to add some text to a PDF is a very nice feature. Especially since PDFs already open in Firefox by default.

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      7 months ago

      I appreciate this. Previously I had to switch to Edge for a moment just for PDF editing.

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      7 months ago

      Editable PDF’s are commonly used around the world, for statistics, beurocracy and application processes. Having a program readily available to edit those is generally a good thing.

      It also prevents Adobe from getting downloads, which is an absolute win.

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      7 months ago

      I read this and immediately celebrated it as the greatest feature to grace firefox in a while. It’s already my default pdf viewer since it means I don’t have to start up any program to view a pdf, now I also don’t need to do that to edit one.

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      7 months ago

      As someone who reads PDFs almost exclusively, you have no idea how handy this tool is for those of us who do use it. Firefox really is leading in this regard for its users and us happy few are so happy right now.