Does the Okular pdf viewer both for Linux and for Windows use javascript? If yes is that as dangerous as the javascript in Adobe acrobat reader?

Yes, Okular uses the QJSEngine provided by the Qt framework for running the JavaScript in a sandboxed environment. Probably not as it is sandboxed. Currently, Evince by GNOME doesn’t support javaScript. There’s a fork of Evince that is ported to GTK4 and Rust called Papers . If anyone knows of a …

[image] jerm: or if there are more secure pdf viewers/editors out there. [image] PDF Reader That Is The Best For User Privacy? Questions If it is just about reading, simply use a browser. The PDF reader in it is sandboxed, can only use a very limited subset of JS, a…

I would just eliminate that attack vector by going into about:config search for “pdfjs.enableScripting” and set it to false in Firefox.

For brave [image] Disable JavaScript for PDF browser Hey @Netmage Is the actual pdf, the google drive link is just rendered on googles side, Though I would need to find actual pdfs with linking to javascript to p…

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