Mozilla seems determined to build a fully-functional PDF editor inside of Firefox, and I don't really get why.Do you guys like using your browser to edit PDF files? Is there an advantage over using a separate program?
The fact that I often have to download an extra program just to deal with PDFs is genuinely baffling. Imagine not being able to open a JPG on fresh install of a desktop OS. Piggy backing of the fact that Firefox comes on a bunch Linux distros is smart.
>>109535983>The fact that I often have to download an extra program just to deal with PDFs is genuinely baffling.Does it also "baffle" you that you need a separate program to handle spreadsheets, write word documents, and edit graphics?A built in viewer makes sense. A fully featured editor does not.
>>109536024If you made a desktop OS that can't open these files om fresh install, nevermind edit them, yes it would baffle me. Even Microsoft were smart enough to make mspaint.exe and have to not suck complete ass for basic features like cropping or drawing red lines and circles.
>>109535983Firefox can open JPEGs, PNGs, MP3s, PDFs, TXT files, and probably much more
>>109536340Yeah but wouldn't it be much better if instead you had to download programs for all of these things?
>>109535942I don't edit pdf, I compile to it from other formats.as for viewing, sumatrapdf exists, and opens pdf that firefox doesn't, much faster too.
>>109536369No. Why do you think it would be better? Having to do more for the same result is always worse
>>109535942Rarely use them at all, even for viewing.
>>109537524a native program specialized for the job is always better, faster, more customizable than a web browser or god forbid a webapp inside the web browser.
>>109537617Exactly, smartphones proved that the user experience is vastly improved if you put every single task and service on a dedicated app. Putting too many features into any software just confuses and angers the user.
>>109535983>I want my browser to be my OS.You are part of the problem.
>>109537666poor example because smarphone "apps" are in most cases a web browser wrapped webpage.
>>109535942Why can't pdfs forms just be replaced with .txt files? I'll fill in my portion and email it back.What I mean is, why can't I (easily) edit a .txt file in Firefox?
>>109535942Acrobat is the devil so I'm all for it.
>>109537954I'd rather not have everything in my browser but if you OS doesn't come with software that can handle commonly used files, yeah I'd rather Firefox force you to.
>>109538030I'd rather ask why pdf forms exist at all when there are perfectly servicable html forms.
>>109535942Because that's how PDF boomers use it. Wait til you see shit like cert signatures and "3D PDF" (literally just webview WebGL2 context).
>>109538183Can't easily save a partially complete html form, that's the big one that comes to mind
>>109535983FPBP.Let Firefox cook. If it means I don't need a third party application for this SUPER SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE .txt document format? **GOOD**. Fuck Adobe.
>>109535983I wouldn't want some always-online malware to open pdf files. Doesn't matter if it's some game manual or medical data
>>109535983PDF support has been built into Mac OS since 1999.
>>109538030>What I mean is, why can't I (easily) edit a .txt file in Firefox?That's as crazy as being able to use a webbrowser as a FTP client
>>109541065Xanadu is where things really start to get crazy
did something happen with firefox performance lately? I just updated arch after probably a month or two and now my firefox cant handle my 4000 or so tabs it slows to a crawl and tree style tab doesn't seem to work at all
i been using okular to view pdfpretty comfy, not sure if others do it but changing the color of background and text is a lifesaver to make it easier to readI really really really really do not like fucking around with adobe bullshit at work thoif I could i would ban the motherfucker and make sure nobody ever opened a fucking pdf in acrobat againalmost 1GB program to view pdfs btw no other features and slow as fuck>>109538273>pdf boomersthese are the reason i still have to keep that app deployedunironically they think that pdf files can only be opened by acrobat at this pointits a mind virus
>hardware accelerated pdfs
at least that is free
