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Great, yet more formats that I have to try and get around Google Docs with. Worst of all is PDF: Some of us have browsers and platforms that don't hate the format, and viewing PDFs natively in Safari/Chrome is a million times better than sending them through Google Docs for mangling.

Easily my most despised GMail "feature", that.




If you're using Chrome, Gmail opens PDF's using Chrome's own viewer now.


So why is their platform the only one to get special treatment? Safari also has a (better, faster) native PDF viewer, why not hand off to it too?

Don't like this precedent of funnelling the web via their servers and translators unless you're using their browser.




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