Rid yourself of Adobe: New Firefox 19.0 gets JAVASCRIPT PDF viewer
Built-in reader escapes into wild from beta incubator
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Mozilla's Firefox web browser now includes a built-in PDF viewer - allowing users to bin plugins from Adobe and other developers.
The move to run third-party PDF file readers out of town comes after security holes were discovered in closed-source add-ons from FoxIt and Adobe. The new built-in document viewer is open source, just like Firefox, and is written in JavaScript.
No plugin required to peek at this portable-document-format file
The web browser's PDF.js emerged as a beta version in January, and yesterday was added to the mainstream build of Firefox, specifically the new version 19.0. There's more on the HTML5 and JavaScript used to create the PDF reader right here.
As an upside of using HTML5 and JavaScript, the viewer is multi-platform and works across PCs, tablets and mobile phones - it should also work in other web browsers.
"Not only do most PDFs load and render quickly, they run securely and have an interface that feels at home in the browser," Mozilla's bods added, apparently comfortable that their new PDF.js tool has fewer security issues than Adobe's well-established plugin. ®
COMMENTS
Re: I've been trying it.
I see you are unaware of the dozens of memory corruption exploits firefox has been victim to.
I see you need to read his comment again. What part of "Mozilla's approach to security" means "Mozilla has never had a security bug"?
Go away, troll.
I've been trying it.
Seems to work.
Can be a bit slow.
Thumbs up for avoiding Adobe.
Am I the only person...
..who prefers to open PDF files in an external application rather than scrunched inside the browser window? Haven't used a browser plugin for yonks. I wish there was some simple viewer software that just viewed & didn't support all the JavaScript and other crap that PDF's can now contain tho..
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