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Firefox 19 Release Today Brings The PDF Viewer
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Originally posted by mayankleoboy1 View Postand thats the major announcement for Firefox ? That it has PDF reader ? Which was available as pdf.js addon ages ago.
What happened to those times when 1 major version change brought tons of improvements. ?
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Originally posted by Rexilion View PostAnyone capable of sharing quick first impressions about the PDF viewer in FF 19? Will it be able to smoothly open my ~900 page electronic edition of my book complete with pictures? Is it capable of text search? Full screen? Auto resize? Select and copy? Can it handle forms?
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Originally posted by locovaca View PostFirst PDF I loaded was a fairly simply W2 (US tax document). 1 Page, standard text inside of boxes, and Firefox pegged a core the entire time it was open. Yet another point in Chrome's favor, which rendered the document perfectly.
I think Mozilla mainly intends this viewer to be a previewer, to handle the 99% of cases where someone just wants to quickly browse through a PDF and then forget it. If you want advanced functionality, forms, etc. then i think they would still recommend sticking with Adobe's PDF viewer, or whatever plugin you are currently using.
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Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostCan you share the link so we can see the problem too?
I think Mozilla mainly intends this viewer to be a previewer, to handle the 99% of cases where someone just wants to quickly browse through a PDF and then forget it. If you want advanced functionality, forms, etc. then i think they would still recommend sticking with Adobe's PDF viewer, or whatever plugin you are currently using.
Here's a sample of a different doc, it doesn't peg my CPU, but Firefox' memory usage shoots up about 300 megabytes to render and scroll the form.
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Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostI think Mozilla mainly intends this viewer to be a previewer, to handle the 99% of cases where someone just wants to quickly browse through a PDF and then forget it. If you want advanced functionality, forms, etc. then i think they would still recommend sticking with Adobe's PDF viewer, or whatever plugin you are currently using.
If you are using Windows then Sumatra PDF is great.
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Originally posted by uid313 View Post
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Originally posted by locovaca View PostNo, I actually won't share the link to my W-2. It's a rather personal financial document.
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