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async5

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    Comment #10098916

    Shumway can be used as a runtime for those movies - the site owner just to need fallback to its HTML player. It plays common ActionScript 1/2/3 usages well.

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    Comment #10023847

    There is also https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer/oemmndc... :)

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    Comment #10023796

    Market share... and ignorance of users :)

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    Comment #10022882

    There are not exploitable (at least not the same way). Firefox PDF viewer is a modification of PDF.js, so PDF.js code would run in the browser without a web server. The exploit mig…

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    Comment #10022343

    For users that are opted in telemetry reporting, it can go up to 40M PDF views per browser version [1] [1] http://telemetry.mozilla.org/dist.html#!cumulative=0&end_date=2015-06-05&…

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    Comment #10022140

    And even latest here http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.co.il/2015/07/stable-ch... - 5 of them has pdfium

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    Comment #8199560

    Original PDF - 1.0M, SVGs - 7.7M, gzip'ed SVGs - 1.7M. I think the latter is a preferable format for the web, so you are looking 70% increase for this types of documents, but bare …

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    Comment #8199210

    Now you have alternative to not use PDF (viewer)?

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    Comment #8199133

    What does "the fonts are not kept" mean? http://pramodhkp.github.io/pdf2svg/svgdump/tracemonkey-1.svg looks as original PDF page and the SVG contains embedded fonts.

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    Comment #7905055

    Just a hint: "pdfjs.disabled" is hard switch off and it makes it harder to recover native PDF plugin viewing capability. Switching using Preferences/Options->Applications makes it …

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    Comment #7784606

    Per https://code.google.com/p/pdfium/issues/detail?id=1 : "Looks like the standalone build system is not yet present."

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    Comment #7784046

    Except one does not provide protection from the patents.

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    Comment #7783994

    It looks like they did it in a hurry (on the next day) just after https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/how-fast-is-pdf-js/ was published? Competition FTW!

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    Comment #7753490

    > H.264 is a public standard that anyone is free to implement. That's correct -- you can implement it. But you have to pay for its usage. See http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/av…

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    Comment #7720620

    > If client side rendering is too slow, then don't render on the client. Cache the rasterized pdf as tiles up in the cloud and only read the actual document... Some people are not …

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    Comment #7720539

    Filing nothing will not be helpful for sure. Creating a report in any related bug reporting system will bring developer's, QA's or manager's attention. Just provide enough informat…

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    Comment #7716877

    Is it https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760997 ?

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    Comment #7716855

    right... http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search-results?query=mupdf...

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    Comment #7716840

    Yes, you can build you own personalized extension for Firefox, Chrome or Opera from PDF.js source code, which will disable text layer. (see also #textLayer=off feature at https://g…

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    Comment #7716804

    Here is telemetry data from beta users about size of PDFs http://telemetry.mozilla.org/#beta/29/PDF_VIEWER_DOCUMENT_SI... -- typical PDF size is about 200KB, and 11MB is less 20% o…

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    Comment #4778036

    > or http://raditts.com/phyles/xiao3.swf I was looking for this movie. Thanks!

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