Be careful with this Firefox 88 feature !


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Check this article to know how to disable JS in PDFs:
 
If you are looking for a replacement, then install pdftohtml and elinks and use this:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
pdftohtml -stdout -s -dataurls "$1" | elinks -stdin
Leaving out -dataurls may make it significantly faster. To be honest the images do not work properly anyway on my computer. Though that may be fim's fault.

Or if you like bloatware, zathura is pretty good too.
 
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I use mupdf to read all of my downloaded pdfs. No idea what it's doing behind the scenes, although if it is running javascript it's pretty bloody fast about it. All I really know is that it renders pdfs including graphics in a blink of an eye, whereas firefox spends ages spinning it's damn spinner before it'll render any pdf. The only downsides is I slightly prefer the way firefox shows pdfs as a series of pages, while mupdf will after jumping down to the bottom of a page next press be right at the top of the next page. At least it's only one keypress in the reverse direction to get back at the bottom of a page, I guess.
 
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