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Highlighter Tweaks/Save Feature

chud — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:59:31 GMT

Until this week, I have used Firefox for everything EXCEPT highlighting and adding text in a PDF. For that, I had to use Edge. With the new update, I can now use Firefox for EVERYTHING! Thanks for adding this feature that I use on a daily basis, all day long.

May I suggest some tweaks to make the highlight/save features just a bit better? When I have opened a saved PDF and the highlight toolbar is then present, I click to choose a color and by default the last color I chose is active. Great! However, the Highlight color pop-up stays on the screen, blocking the PDF. It would be nice if the user could click an X to make the pop-up go away. It would also be appreciated if the Thickness I have chosen was saved and always the same. In the same vein, please save my Text settings so that I don't have to choose the color, etc. each time.

Regarding the Save function, it is essentially Save As, which takes many more steps to work through. Please name the current icon Save As and add a second icon for Save.

Thanks for listening!

Re: Highlighter Tweaks/Save Feature

marco — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:08:58 GMT

Thanks for the great feedback, and thanks for the suggestions!

We are going to be working on a bit of a redesign soon, to make all tools more easy to use, we'll take your ideas into account!

Re: Highlighter Tweaks/Save Feature

emnet — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 21:48:20 GMT

I have the same feelings about the highlighting function and the toolbar blocking the rest of the pdf. Thank you for voicing this!

Re: Highlighter Tweaks/Save Feature

nalayna — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:14:35 GMT

We have similar issues with the toolbar blocking text 😄

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/display-pdf-highlighting-tools-when-hovering-only-or-more-to-the/idi-p/87819