762371 - Improve discoverability of download and other buttons of PDF.js

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, enhancement)

Description

[Jean-Bernard Marcon]

The PDV View as implemented on Firefox atm provide dark-grey and black interface which is cool to highlight main central document but that makes features button appear very fading out in grey. 
I had no problem with that until recently my wife who regularly wants one doc to be printed discovred Firefox did not open an adobe reader as previously but PDFViewer. She had some problems to identify and spot main icons, especially the download arrow.
I don't know if it is a question of size, color or shape, but i suggest there should be some UI/UX work on that to make buttons more easily discoverable.
Please do NOT consider this is just trivial. Mainstream adoption of a new component may depend on such "details"

my config Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:16.0) Gecko/16.0 Firefox/16.0a1

Comment 1

[Yury Delendik (:yury)]

Is 782221 duplicate?

Comment 2

[Alfred Kayser]

See also bug 801407. If we make PDF view themeable, then at least themers can address this in their way.

Comment 3

[ranunculoid]

+1, the download button is not obvious at all. It should be a floppy disk symbol and preferably the word “Save” beside it in text, since there is *plenty* of space.

Comment 4

[ranunculoid]

Also, it's a save button, not a download button. Big difference.

Comment 5

[Matt McMahon]

In addition (on 20.0a2 (2013-02-19) at least):
1. The "Download" button is hidden on narrow view ports (at around 600 px or narrower).
2. The Right-Click/Context Menu -> "Save Page As" wants to save a web page, not a PDF file.
3. Same issue with Firefox Menu -> Save Page As.

So in general, saving a PDF file is much more difficult and much less discoverable than it should be.

Comment 6

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

This has been fixed by the icon updates part of bug 1739965 (see also bug 1760482 comment 7).

Comment 7

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

(In reply to Matt McMahon from comment #5)

2. The Right-Click/Context Menu -> "Save Page As" wants to save a web page,
   not a PDF file.
3. Same issue with Firefox Menu -> Save Page As.

And these two aspects have been fixed a long time ago :)