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Firefox 19 Launches With Built-In PDF Viewer

Posted by Soulskill on from the they-should-use-roman-numerals-for-launch-numbers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 19 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The improvements include a built-in PDF viewer on the desktop and theme support as well as lower CPU requirements on Google's mobile platform. You can see the official changelogs here: desktop and Android."

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  1. Blogspam! by roboticbebop · · Score: 5, Informative

    TFA links to blogspam, below is the actual release note list from Mozilla

    http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/19.0/releasenotes/

    Come on, guys.

  2. Re:What about Save As PDF by cristiroma · · Score: 3, Informative

    Guess what? I have Firefox 18 and already has that. Go to File ... > Print ... > PDF > Save as PDF (also, Save as PostScript). Maybe only on Mac?

  3. Re:What about Save As PDF by MrYingster · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's a Mac thing. Any program that uses Apple's built-in printer dialog can do it. So handy!

  4. Re:What about Save As PDF by Junta · · Score: 4, Informative

    It also happens in Linux. Don't have Windows handy at the moment, but I'd be surprised if Firefox on OSX and Linux has it but Windows did not.

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  5. Re:What about Save As PDF by JackieBrown · · Score: 4, Informative

    Windows does not have it (at least not XP.) Linux does, as you said. I use that feature more than I actually print.

  6. Zombie compartments, four versions ago by tepples · · Score: 5, Informative

    We banned it from our company after waiting years for various memory leaks to be fixed.

    That was fixed. The Firefox memory heap is now divided into "compartments", and Firefox 15 changed memory management to be more aggressive at purging compartments associated with closed pages.

    1. Re:Zombie compartments, four versions ago by Ginger+Unicorn · · Score: 3, Informative

      After some cursory googling around, I can only find benchmarks showing firefox using significantly less ram than other browsers. A couple of examples.

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  7. Re:Page Numbers by oji-sama · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, it displays page numbers and supports jumping. Also includes buttons for moving a page up or down (left and right keys work as shortcuts)

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  8. Re:In version 20 Firefox will have built-in Emacs! by maztuhblastah · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't you get the irony of Phoenix? It's a small and light version of Firefox which was a small and light version of Mozilla. It's turtles all the way down man.

    Uh... I think he does. Firefox used to be called Firebird. You know why? Because hey had to change the original name: Phoenix.

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  9. Re:What about Save As PDF by number11 · · Score: 3, Informative

    It would be handy, if you actually wanted to produce pdf. Given that Adobe's pdf tools are what most people use, and that those are absolutely the largest vector for malware IN THE WORLD, I don't want any more pdf around.

    Why is anyone using Adobe Reader anymore? There are several very nice alternatives, including Foxit, PDF-Xchange, Sumatra, Slim and others. I haven't used Adobe on any of my computers for years.

  10. Great, more bloat by xiando · · Score: 3, Informative

    My 800 MHz ARM Android phone can't even run Firefox because of it's resource requirements (I'm glad there's Dolphin) and it's getting bigger and slower, not faster and learner, on my desktop. I'd rather see JavaScript speeds improvements and fat cutting. There's plenty of good external programs for opening PDF files already (okular, evince, etc), the browser does not need to open PDF files itself any more than it needs to open OpenDocument spreadsheets.

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  11. Re:What about Save As PDF by Bazzargh · · Score: 3, Informative

    Windows doesn't have it because Adobe didn't want MS to do it.

    This is why MS made XPS

    Stuart Parmenter wrote an extension for firefox after it started using Cairo (FF3) which would let you print pdf - since with Cairo that came pretty much free. It never made it into the default UI (as you say - it's not needed on Linux and Mac) and since the rendering architecture moved again to azure&skia I guess rendering to pdf wasn't free any more, and the extension no longer works.