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Firefox can now be set as default PDF Reader in Windows 10

Posted by Techdows on Jun 1st, 2020

Starting Firefox 78, the built-in PDF Viewer in Firefox (PDF.js) can be set as default PDF Reader on Windows. Mozilla has made the necessary changes to browser installer to register Firefox as a PDF handler on windows 10. Like Chrome... More »

PDF.js to get Huge Memory Improvements in Firefox 33

Posted by Techdows on Jun 17th, 2014

PDF.js, Firefox’s built-in PDF Viewer has got huge improvements in memory consumption and speed department in version 29, it to get additional large reductions in memory consumption in Firefox 33 browser (which set to release... More »

How to Get Firefox’s PDF.js Viewer in Chrome and Opera

Posted by Techdows on Jun 23rd, 2013

If you’ve liked Mozilla’s PDF.js, JavaScript powered PDF Viewer in Firefox-which shows PDFs inline in browser without need of any plugins- and want it in Google Chrome and Opera browsers through form of an extension, you can now... More »

Comparison Between Firefox PDF Viewer (PDF.js) and Chrome PDF Viewer

Posted by Techdows on May 5th, 2013

Firefox PDF Viewer from Mozilla based on JavaScript and HTML5 renders PDFs securely in the browser, and is similar to PDF Viewer offered in Chrome. Here you need to remember the fact that Chrome PDF Viewer is still a plugin built by... More »

How to Set Firefox as Default PDF Reader

Posted by Techdows on Jan 27th, 2013

Recently Firefox 19 Beta has been released with pdf.js, built-in PDF viewer enabled by default, since its not a plugin like to Chrome PDF Viewer that’s why this JavaScript based PDF Viewer is more secure. In fact you can set it as... More »

Firefox 19 will Come with built-in PDF Viewer enabled by Default

Posted by Techdows on Jan 11th, 2013

PDF.js, Mozilla’s project to render PDFs natively and securely inside the browser without any plugins has been finally turned on by default in Firefox 19 beta which is available for Windows, Linux and Mac. PDF.js works even on other... More »

Firefox 18: PDF.js gets Printing Support

Posted by Techdows on Sep 29th, 2012

Do you remember PDF.js? Firefox built in PDF reader based on JavaScript and HTML5 progressing well so far, to the latest PDF.JS got Printing support in Firefox 18 nightly where Mozilla specially had to create a new API, MozPrintcallback... More »

Native PDF Viewer in Firefox 15 gets Black UI

Posted by Techdows on Jun 6th, 2012

Mozilla tweaked the UI of built-in PDF Viewer in nightly build of Firefox 15 and it certainly looks better and as a part of Firefox. This Firefox PDF Viewer now loading PDF document much faster than before. If you don’t know... More »

PDF.js Extension for Firefox

Posted by Techdows on Oct 27th, 2011

We’ve already covered about PDF.js which is native HTML5 PDF renderer for Firefox currently under development and not part of Mozilla this project is driven by user community. But Mozilla plans to release an PDf.js extension first... More »

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