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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. What about Save As PDF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I would be impressed if they included a Save As or Print To PDF File option like Google Chrome browser does.

  2. Re:Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Mozilla PDF viewer is written in javascript, so it *should* be completely sandboxed.

  3. Re:Still exists? by realmolo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Firefox uses less memory than Chrome these days.

    Plus, Firefox is just as fast as Chrome, typically.

    And, finally and most importantly, Firefox has a zillion useful extensions. Like NoScript and Adblock.

    Chrome is fine, but I don't like how it handles tabs (I use TabMixPlus on Firefox), and I *really* hate how hard it makes it to access bookmarks. Yes, you can solve the bookmark issue with extensions, but none of them are *quite* right.

  4. Re:Wow! by theguyfromsaturn · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Definitely faster than PDF plugin. I've been using the pdf.js plugin since it first appeared. I'd never go back to the plugin.

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