The Firefox PDF reader is atrocious. Opening any non-trivial PDF causes it to crash even on an i9 with 32GB of RAM. I guess this is because it's rendering the pdf to HTML.
Huh, I guess “non-trivial PDF” is so wide a spectrum as to become meaningless, but FWIW I’ve never had any such problems on much lower hardware specs. I am, however, only talking about whole books, long-ish forms, brochures with print-quality images and graphs and that sort of thing. Since PDFs can theoretically contain anything under the sun, are you perhaps talking about more exotic use cases (interactivity, animation, idk)? Or just more excessive file sizes?
I use Firefox by default, but I open PDFs with large organization charts very regularly. I have Edge open for this because Firefox renders everything in these documents far too slowly.
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