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0 pointsoblio4y ago0 comments

> If it were, they'd have never added a pdf viewer in the first place. Everyone already had one. Near-zero benefit, huge cost.

Every time I clicked a PDF online, I dreaded the external viewer opening (especially Adobe Reader). I very much liked when they integrated a PDF viewer. Chrome also has one.

I'm willing to bet the internal PDF viewer has at least 100x (more likely 1000x) the users the FTP client had.

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antisol4y ago

Sounds like you had a shitty pdf viewer installed. Which is not my problem.

Why was I forced to install a substandard, feature-poor, ridiculously slow pdf viewer that I never wanted and which took over as the default pdf viewer against my wishes and without asking me, just because you couldn't be bothered to install a decent one?

>I'm willing to bet the internal PDF viewer has at least 100x (more likely 1000x) the users the FTP client had.

Yeah, that tends to happen when you change the defaults without asking.

oblioOP4y ago

Vent, rant, get it out of your system :-)

antisol4y ago

Way ahead of ya ;)

but you didn't address my question

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0 pointsoblio4y ago0 comments

> If it were, they'd have never added a pdf viewer in the first place. Everyone already had one. Near-zero benefit, huge cost.

Every time I clicked a PDF online, I dreaded the external viewer opening (especially Adobe Reader). I very much liked when they integrated a PDF viewer. Chrome also has one.

I'm willing to bet the internal PDF viewer has at least 100x (more likely 1000x) the users the FTP client had.

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antisol4y ago

Sounds like you had a shitty pdf viewer installed. Which is not my problem.

>I'm willing to bet the internal PDF viewer has at least 100x (more likely 1000x) the users the FTP client had.

Yeah, that tends to happen when you change the defaults without asking.

oblioOP4y ago

Vent, rant, get it out of your system :-)

antisol4y ago

Way ahead of ya ;)

but you didn't address my question

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