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Agreed. As an OS X user, I hate it any time a browser or website uses something like PDF.js instead of the native PDF support. The native PDF support in OS X is fast and excellent.



> instead of the native PDF support

You mean instead of just downloading the file? Or does Preview support opening PDF links.


Safari will display PDFs natively without requiring you to download it to disk.


And on iOS too!


And fully sandboxed on both macOS and iOS!


Care of QLPreviewController [1], something I wish Android had an equivalent for...

[1] https://developer.apple.com/reference/quicklook/qlpreviewcon...


Preview does support opening PDF links.




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