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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 MrYingster · · Score: 5, Informative

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

  3. 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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    XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
  4. 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.

  5. 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.