Love it, but unlike Chrome's embedded PDF reader, it can't "stream" PDFs (a dealbreaker for people viewing media-heavy PDFs on slower connections)
We're working on that https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/pull/2719
Firefox introduces PDF viewer
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#92Re: Firefox introduces PDF viewer
#93If you want to try PDF.js from your current browser, here's a demo: http://mozilla.github.com/pdf.js/web/viewer.html I wonder what's keeping this so ugly in Chrome. Also, does anyone know if printing is intended to work? It doesn't appear to have the pagination right, again at least on Chrome.
Almost bearable in MobileSafari on my iPhone. Almost... well, I guess the limiting factors are mostly under Apple's control, not pdf.js's.
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Please take your time machine and go release PDF.js in early 2010. With good performance on the hardware and Javascript VMs of early 2010. Then I'll grant you the criticism of Chrome's PDF viewer. Otherwise, trolling... fact is, Chrome is the browser that liberated the world from Acrobat Reader. PDF.js is awesome and it may be the way to go, but as of today Chrome's viewer is still much better -- please try http://ww…
From what I can gather Chrome's PDF viewer pretty much is Acrobat Reader. (It's also not available to users of the open-source version Chromium - in fact, as far as I can tell there's no decent way to read PDFs in Chromium at all.)
It's FoxIt, not Acrobat.
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> While Mozilla are pumping out stellar designs like this, Google are pushing crap like Native Client and their proprietary, binary-only Foxit Reader solution instead, complete with the hundreds of thousands of LOC of insecure C this entails. Rock on, Mozilla! Why are you dumping on Google? Their browser has been able to handle PDFs for years (including forms!).
Chrome's PDF plugin is closed source, and written in C. It is very useful, but not free as in FOSS.
That has nothing to do with anything. If you're just having a dick measuring contest, Google has contributed a ton to the open source community. Google also provides nearly 100% of funding for Mozilla.
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And... ?
It's not just a matter of open/closed source. Bundling in yet another C binary is only going to widen the surface area for security vulnerabilities for millions of people, and there's really not a great reason to do so anymore. PDF.js proves that it's possible to write high-performance javascript to do this stuff, without introducing any security risks and it's completely cross-platform. Computers are only going to g…
But Chrome's works better and has been around (and useful for millions) for years. Perhaps they'll move to a JS solution in the future, but if I had to choose between the two right now I'd take the faster more complete one.
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#98I would love to have a PDF viewer app for OS X based on PDF.js. Better still if it could be sandboxed and have other enhanced security. Just tried out Firefox 19, and the PDF reader is good. Responsive enough, with just the barest hint of render lag. Minor nit: Firefox isn't currently registered as handling PDF, but will still open it happily. EDIT: I have Firefox as my OS X Mountain Lion's PDF viewer app now. Works…
Any particular reason? OS X natively supports PDFs (and is both much faster and more complete than pdf.js).
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#99Is there anyway to change the background/foreground color ?
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#100It fails with the 4th google hit for "sample pdf": http://www.inkwelleditorial.com/pdfSample.pdf (The main difference I see with Firefox 19 on win7 is that it loads pages significantly faster.)
Is this still an issue with the development version? https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js#extension
I tested it on Windows and it 'works for me'.