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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. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm sure there'll be lots of delicious holes to exploit.

    1. Re:Wow! by Joce640k · · Score: -1, Troll

      Well they are giving everyone a leg up by including a PDF view. Whatcouldpossiblygowrong?

      Are they giving everyone a leg up by breaking all the add-ons?

      Again.

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  2. Still exists? by DogDude · · Score: -1, Troll

    I honestly didn't know that Firefox still existed. We banned it from our company after waiting years for various memory leaks to be fixed. I thought that most people had done the same a long time ago. We're very happy with Chrome, and don't see a reason to bother with Firefox again. Is there any real reason to use Firefox any more?

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    1. Re:Still exists? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      My company dumped Lin-sux for a similar reason (well, it being slow and insecure too). Open sores software generally SUCKS ASS compared to its closed source counterpart in basically every field. We are now a Windows and OS X shop and MUCH better off for it. At this point anyone who still uses open sores to run any aspect of their business is an idiot.

  3. Re:In version 20 Firefox will have built-in Emacs! by Desler · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm not being sarcastic. Every version of Firefox fixes multiple critical and high priority bugs in the Javascript engine that allows arbitrary code execution. That he thinks this will be immune from exploits is hilariously naive.