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   Schugo to Schugo   
   Re: Open PDFs from mail attachment   
   19 Dec 25 14:47:56   
   
   From: schugo@schugo.de   
      
   On 19.12.2025 14:34, Schugo wrote:   
   > On 19.12.2025 13:11, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >> On 16/12/2025 3:33 am, Schugo wrote:   
   >>> Hi!   
   >>>   
   >>> when I click on a PDF attachment the browser opens a blank page.   
   >>> When I press ENTER in the urlbar the preview shows up.   
   >>> Only me or a bug?   
   >>>   
   >>> ciao..   
   >>>   
   >> Shouldn't whatever your system has set-up to handle 'PDF' documents open   
   >> up??   
   >   
   > A few years ago SM/FF added an internal pdf viewer and set that as standard   
   > PDF viewer. That's OK for 99% of PDFs to view. You can still change to a   
   > custom PDF viewer in the filetype handlers.   
      
   + it's surely less attackable, since it's written in JS.   
      
   Adobe Acrobat and FoxIt Reader regularly (especially Acrobat!)   
   have CRITICAL vulnerabilities (Remote Code Execution)   
   like 1-2 on every month's patch day.   
      
   I only use Sumatra PDF as native reader.   
      
   ciao...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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