• strcrssd@kbin.social
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    6 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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      6 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!

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      6 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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      6 months ago

      I agree, this is juat bloat. Super useful .to have the utility but in a browser ffs ? Just have an app people can download that you can do it with, I’d for sure use it. They don’t even have native grouped tabs yet, something that a browser should do so start focusing in browser improvement.

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
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      6 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.