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creatoneztoday at 2:14 AM1 replyview on HN

Firefox has a builtin PDF reader, PDF.js, that resides inside of the Javascript sandbox. In theory, it's as safe as loading a webpage.


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autoexectoday at 3:05 AM

So not actually all that safe since sandbox escapes happen all the time. PDF.js has had many vulnerabilities as well