diff --git a/src/core/evaluator.js b/src/core/evaluator.js
index 5e86ea5e2aaf4..41081c5f4e3ef 100644
--- a/src/core/evaluator.js
+++ b/src/core/evaluator.js
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ class PartialEvaluator {
           `fetchStandardFontData: failed to fetch file "${url}" with "${response.statusText}".`
         );
       } else {
-        data = await response.arrayBuffer();
+        data = new Uint8Array(await response.arrayBuffer());
       }
     } else {
       // Get the data on the main-thread instead.
diff --git a/src/display/display_utils.js b/src/display/display_utils.js
index 4b535b73e5664..2ec31ca8e2490 100644
--- a/src/display/display_utils.js
+++ b/src/display/display_utils.js
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ class DOMCanvasFactory extends BaseCanvasFactory {
   }
 }
 
-async function fetchData(url, asTypedArray = false) {
+async function fetchData(url, type = "text") {
   if (
     (typeof PDFJSDev !== "undefined" && PDFJSDev.test("MOZCENTRAL")) ||
     isValidFetchUrl(url, document.baseURI)
@@ -396,29 +396,35 @@ async function fetchData(url, asTypedArray = false) {
     if (!response.ok) {
       throw new Error(response.statusText);
     }
-    return asTypedArray
-      ? new Uint8Array(await response.arrayBuffer())
-      : stringToBytes(await response.text());
+    switch (type) {
+      case "arraybuffer":
+        return response.arrayBuffer();
+      case "json":
+        return response.json();
+    }
+    return response.text();
   }
 
   // The Fetch API is not supported.
   return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
     const request = new XMLHttpRequest();
-    request.open("GET", url, /* asTypedArray = */ true);
+    request.open("GET", url, /* async = */ true);
+    request.responseType = type;
 
-    if (asTypedArray) {
-      request.responseType = "arraybuffer";
-    }
     request.onreadystatechange = () => {
       if (request.readyState !== XMLHttpRequest.DONE) {
         return;
       }
       if (request.status === 200 || request.status === 0) {
         let data;
-        if (asTypedArray && request.response) {
-          data = new Uint8Array(request.response);
-        } else if (!asTypedArray && request.responseText) {
-          data = stringToBytes(request.responseText);
+        switch (type) {
+          case "arraybuffer":
+          case "json":
+            data = request.response;
+            break;
+          default:
+            data = request.responseText;
+            break;
         }
         if (data) {
           resolve(data);
@@ -437,8 +443,17 @@ class DOMCMapReaderFactory extends BaseCMapReaderFactory {
    * @ignore
    */
   _fetchData(url, compressionType) {
-    return fetchData(url, /* asTypedArray = */ this.isCompressed).then(data => {
-      return { cMapData: data, compressionType };
+    return fetchData(
+      url,
+      /* type = */ this.isCompressed ? "arraybuffer" : "text"
+    ).then(data => {
+      return {
+        cMapData:
+          data instanceof ArrayBuffer
+            ? new Uint8Array(data)
+            : stringToBytes(data),
+        compressionType,
+      };
     });
   }
 }
@@ -448,7 +463,9 @@ class DOMStandardFontDataFactory extends BaseStandardFontDataFactory {
    * @ignore
    */
   _fetchData(url) {
-    return fetchData(url, /* asTypedArray = */ true);
+    return fetchData(url, /* type = */ "arraybuffer").then(data => {
+      return new Uint8Array(data);
+    });
   }
 }
 
@@ -993,6 +1010,7 @@ export {
   DOMFilterFactory,
   DOMStandardFontDataFactory,
   DOMSVGFactory,
+  fetchData,
   getColorValues,
   getCurrentTransform,
   getCurrentTransformInverse,
diff --git a/src/pdf.js b/src/pdf.js
index cc8d6af5872a2..6c88794e8ad16 100644
--- a/src/pdf.js
+++ b/src/pdf.js
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ import {
 } from "./display/api.js";
 import {
   DOMSVGFactory,
+  fetchData,
   getFilenameFromUrl,
   getPdfFilenameFromUrl,
   getXfaPageViewport,
@@ -92,6 +93,7 @@ export {
   createValidAbsoluteUrl,
   DOMSVGFactory,
   FeatureTest,
+  fetchData,
   getDocument,
   getFilenameFromUrl,
   getPdfFilenameFromUrl,
diff --git a/test/unit/pdf_spec.js b/test/unit/pdf_spec.js
index d647f5ced7313..c7fd117cd4eb6 100644
--- a/test/unit/pdf_spec.js
+++ b/test/unit/pdf_spec.js
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ import {
 } from "../../src/display/api.js";
 import {
   DOMSVGFactory,
+  fetchData,
   getFilenameFromUrl,
   getPdfFilenameFromUrl,
   getXfaPageViewport,
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ const expectedAPI = Object.freeze({
   createValidAbsoluteUrl,
   DOMSVGFactory,
   FeatureTest,
+  fetchData,
   getDocument,
   getFilenameFromUrl,
   getPdfFilenameFromUrl,
diff --git a/web/genericl10n.js b/web/genericl10n.js
index d63e5e9d1b09c..7a350b50fec8f 100644
--- a/web/genericl10n.js
+++ b/web/genericl10n.js
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 import { FluentBundle, FluentResource } from "fluent-bundle";
 import { DOMLocalization } from "fluent-dom";
+import { fetchData } from "pdfjs-lib";
 import { L10n } from "./l10n.js";
 
 /**
@@ -71,8 +72,8 @@ class GenericL10n extends L10n {
       return null;
     }
     const url = new URL(path, baseURL);
-    const data = await fetch(url);
-    const text = await data.text();
+    const text = await fetchData(url, /* type = */ "text");
+
     const resource = new FluentResource(text);
     const bundle = new FluentBundle(lang);
     const errors = bundle.addResource(resource);
@@ -84,8 +85,8 @@ class GenericL10n extends L10n {
 
   static async #getPaths() {
     const { href } = document.querySelector(`link[type="application/l10n"]`);
-    const data = await fetch(href);
-    const paths = await data.json();
+    const paths = await fetchData(href, /* type = */ "json");
+
     return { baseURL: href.replace(/[^/]*$/, "") || "./", paths };
   }
 }
diff --git a/web/pdfjs.js b/web/pdfjs.js
index 30da7c8d6bd1a..a8b8b215bb350 100644
--- a/web/pdfjs.js
+++ b/web/pdfjs.js
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ const {
   createValidAbsoluteUrl,
   DOMSVGFactory,
   FeatureTest,
+  fetchData,
   getDocument,
   getFilenameFromUrl,
   getPdfFilenameFromUrl,
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ export {
   createValidAbsoluteUrl,
   DOMSVGFactory,
   FeatureTest,
+  fetchData,
   getDocument,
   getFilenameFromUrl,
   getPdfFilenameFromUrl,