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Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting
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I use Firefox as a PDF reader at work. it's better than Adobe Reader or Chrome, and it's good enough, so I haven't bothered finding something else.
I deal with secure information sometimes, in PDF form. I haven't even considered that this information might not remain local.
I use KDE's PDF reader Okular
Sumatra is the notepad++ of pdf readers (minus the state sponsored hackers https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/)
https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf
Looks interesting! I can't see it in their docs, can it display the font type and size of a selected text? I've been using PDF-XChange Viewer mostly for that feature. (Lol I just noticed it has been discontinued since 2018 😬)
I've been using it for ages whenever I need to open PDFs on Windows. Though nowadays browsers handle them too. And I avoid Windows.
It is genuinely excellent software.