[mstijak]

Are there any advantages to using Firefox over Chrome for exporting PDFs with Puppeteer?

[lol768]

I've found Firefox to produce better PDFs than Chrome does, for what it's worth. There are some CSS properties that Chrome/Skia doesn't honour properly (e.g. repeating-linear-gradient) or ends up generating PDFs from that don't work universally.

[freedomben]

Indeed, Firefox uses PDF.js which I've found to produce really good results.

[mook]

Doesn't PDF.js go the other way (convert a PDF into HTML-and-friends for display in a browser, instead of "printing" a page into a PDF)?

I haven't dug into it and am quite possibly incorrect, hence the request for confirmation!

[freedomben]

Ah damnit, yes you're correct. Too late to edit my comment though.

[ak217]

That is correct, pdfjs is not usable for printing. Chrome uses Skia for printing, not sure what Firefox uses.