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I just switched to Edge and it looks great. One of the reasons I had used Chrome and had recommended all my customers to use Chrome was the ability to print to PDF, which Firefox did not have (not sure if it does now). Edge does and will be recommending all my clients to try out Egde.

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the ability to print to PDF

All browser have had the ability to do that, for many years now, if you install a PDF printer driver. Adobe was the first with a commercial one, but I'm sure there are free ones now.

No idea what GP's role is, but given corporate environments, installing a PDF printer driver isn't always a quick process. This is particularly true if they're working with customers from many different companies, each with their own IT considerations.

Recommending Chrome is an easy enough way to get that functionality.

Windows 10 comes with the virtual printer "Microsoft Print to PDF". That will work with firefox and is probably what Edge is actually using.

If only would Edge add support for installing PWA's directly from chrome, like me prompting users to install, it would be great.

Edge needs to add display: contents support before I’d consider suggesting it to anyone.

Thats’s the reason? So trivial to install pdfwriter, whatever it’s called.

pdf.js was intergrated into Firefox at version 19 (released 2012). It looks like pdf.js it supported printing back then. It certainly does now.

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