1019475 - Enable automatic URL hyperlinking

Status: VERIFIED 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]]

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 (relman team) -> :pascalc]

Added to our nightly notes with this wording:

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

Comment 13

[Bogdan Maris, Desktop Test Engineering]

Reproduced using an old build from 2025-02-04 that the pdfs from this bug and its duplicates that the URL are not identified. Verified that using latest beta build 137.0b5 on all platforms (windows 11, macOS 13.7 and Ubuntu 22.04), all pdf examples available are now correctly identified as URLs and work as expected.