Print to PDF preserving hyperlinks

Firefox Development
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To generate PDFs with hyperlinks requires code in Firefox or an add-on to build the document rather than sending it to a printer driver.

  • Adobe’s “Create PDF” extension is a proprietary WebExtensions example (bundled with Acrobat Standard or Pro, but not Reader)
  • The legacy extension Print Pages to PDF did it using the wkhtmltopdf library, which might be how Safari and Chrome do it (Possible Update for Print Pages to PDF Add-on)

Note: The tabs.SaveAsPDF() method available to extensions emulates printing, so that doesn’t help with this problem.