Implement pdf.js

lytoooo0 its an old thread - what are your findings/ask?

Vlad There are two different PDF readers show up randomly. The first one looks like a chrome/firefox reader and the second one looks like the safari reader.

lytoooo0 Sorry I did not understand that. What is the ask?

Lol. the first one is supposed to look like the firefox one, as it’s a demo. everything else should look like the webkit one

Adding shortcuts to move one page up or down in a pdf file opened in browser with left and right arrow keys would be quite convenient. I am a student that interacts with a lot of pdf files and id rather have them in browser and so a feature like this would be nice.

Sorry if this already exists in some other form, in case it does, is there a possibility of switching the command to the left and right arrow keys? Since that would feel very intuitive.

Thanks!

In my experience PDFJs has excellent performance. I find it consistently less laggy and more responsive than Orion's builtin PDF viewer.

You can investigate performance with the example viewer here.

According to the FAQ, performance is more dependent on file complexity/size than the number of pages. Not exactly sure why this is

Not only is PDFJs more feature rich, I also find it more robust. It avoids some bizarre freezes I've had with Orion's builtin pdf viewer. Not sure if Safari has these issues with its pdf viewer. Its been so long since I used that.

The PDF viewer is one of the reasons I still keep Firefox as a secondary browser. When I'm working with a lot of pdfs, I'll start moving tabs from Orion to Firefox just to take advantage of Firefox's better viewer.

As a bonus, switching to PdfJS would also resolve the find text in PDF feature.

NOTE: I've tried using the PDFJS Chrome Extension for this, but unfortunately Kagi doesn't seem to support it (doesn't process the URL correctly).

Techcable iirc, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer-for-vimium-c/nacjakoppgmdcpemlfnfegmlhipddanj?hl=en does work. if you don't have vimium, u can just use it as an alternative pdf viewer, and it doesn't do anything with vim

Hi Vlad, thanks for implementing the feature!
This finally allows me to use Orion as my main browser
Is there a possibility of adding keyboard shortcuts as well?

NadavBrukner You are welcome. For what? And open a new post, this one is done.