1019475 - Enable automatic URL hyperlinking

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, enhancement, P2)

Description

[jemery]

Attachment: PDF containing link which does not work in Firefox

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.114 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open the attached PDF in Firefox. (tried with versions 29, 30, 31)
2. Click the text "Click to view Manual"


Actual results:

Nothing


Expected results:

The text is a link. The link should be followed (to http://support.feralinteractive.com/docs/en/hitmanabsolution/latest/steam/manual/). This works with Adobe Reader and in Apple Preview / Safari.

The same issue is present in Chromium/Pdfium and it looks like they have a solution: https://code.google.com/p/pdfium/issues/detail?id=6

Comment 1

[Yury Delendik (:yury)]

PDF is just have "http://support.feralinteractive.com/docs/en/hitmanabsolution/latest/steam/manual/ http://support.feralinteractive.com/docs/en/hitmanabsolution/latest/steam/manual/ http://support.feralinteractive.com/docs/en/hitmanabsolution/latest/steam/manual/ http://support.feralinteractive.com/docs/en/hitmanabsolution/latest/steam/manual/ http://support.feralinteractive.com/docs/en/hitmanabsolution/latest/steam/manual/ http://support.feralinteractive.com/docs/en/hitmanabsolution/latest/steam/manual/ http://support.feralinteractive.com/docs/en/hitmanabsolution/latest/steam/manual/ http://support.feralinteractive.com/docs/en/hitmanabsolution/latest/steam/manu..." in hidden text on top of graphics. PDF does not contain any instruction to make it as a link/annotation.

Comment 2

[jemery]

Apologies, I was not aware of how the PDF was constructed. However, despite not being explicitly marked as a link, it certainly appears as a link to users of other major PDF readers (Abode Reader, Safari, and now Chromium). I therefore suggest that there is a bug here, in that Firefox PDF viewer behaves differently.

Comment 3

[Petruta Horea [:phorea], Desktop Test Engineering]

Reproduced on latest Nightly 20140618030215 under Win 7 64-bit. The pdf has the same behavior on Chrome.
Set as New.

Comment 4

[jemery]

This bug is no longer present in Chrome, leaving Firefox as the only major browser with this issue.

Comment 7

[jscher2000]

For reference, issue is open here: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/3172

Comment 9

[Calixte Denizet (:calixte)]

Attachment: [mozilla/pdf.js] Enable automatic URL linking (bug 1019475) (#19110)

Comment 10

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla/pdf.js] Enable autolinking in Firefox (bug 1019475) (#19429)

Comment 11

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

Release Note Request (optional, but appreciated)
[Why is this notable]: 4 bugs here on Bugzilla, 23 issues on GitHub, so it was probably a painful papercut for many users.
[Affects Firefox for Android]: Yes.
[Suggested wording]: Firefox now identifies all links in PDFs.
[Links (documentation, blog post, etc)]: N/A

Comment 12

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

Added to our nightly notes with this wording:

Firefox now identifies all links in PDFs and turns them into hyperlinks.