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Meet Firefox's Built-In PDF Reader

Posted by timothy on from the must-include-web-browser dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Not long ago, Mozilla coders announced that they were starting to build PDF.js, a way to display Acrobat documents in the browser using pure web code. No longer will you have to fight with an external PDF plug-in in Firefox. Development on PDF.js has progressed to the point now where you can take an early peek at it. Huzzah!"

2 of 257 comments (clear)

  1. Re:There are real problems to solve first, Mozilla by Vaphell · · Score: 4, Informative

    Memory:
    noscript, adblock, flashblock to cut down unnecessary bullshit
    http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers

    Bring back the protocol in the URL bar:
    about:config -> browser.urlbar.trimURLs = false

  2. Re:Good by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 2, Informative

    In Mozilla Firefox, Javascript interprets PDF!

    Aww, come on mods! That's the first "In Soviet Russia" spin-off joke that was funny and insightful and informative... possibly ever!
    and there it sits at 1...

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