Call me crazy, but hasn’t this been a feature for a while now?
If I remember correctly, it was only possible to add text into pre-existing text fields. With this feature, you can add text (or also scribbles) anywhere you’d like.
Perhaps the Arch Linux repo has a “preview” version then, because I was able to add scribbles and text anywhere for many months by now…
I’m so incredibly hyped for this feature because it means I no longer need to pirate Acrobat! I love reading books on PDF. I once read a non-fiction book and essentially made it into a picture book but with Wikipedia articles and pictures of the artifacts, of places and people. I even added side notes to help with the historical and social context. But it was a painful experience and tired me out after the first and only one.
This means I can simply ctrl+v anything I need into it, both text and images. This is so great, you guise, my heart is filled with joy. Whoever decided this was going to be a great addition to Firefox was completely right. Thanks for thinking of the user! What a great implementation, too.
But why? There’s no need for a PDF editor in a browser. This is just raising the size and lowering the performance of a browser for a feature that almost no one needs or wants.
Mozilla should probably build a PDF viewer/editor (Adobe sucks and Foxit has gone downhill in recent years), but it’s not part of Firefox.
I agree, this is juat bloat. Super useful .to have the utility but in a browser ffs ? Just have an app people can download that you can do it with, I’d for sure use it. They don’t even have native grouped tabs yet, something that a browser should do so start focusing in browser improvement.