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Comment by creatonez

13 hours ago

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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autoexec  12 hours ago

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

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