[ANN] New in Firefox 19: a buit-in PDF viewer
 

Just in case you didn't notice, Pat released this version recently for Slackware 14.

Waiting for the mirrors to sync ;)

I wrote this five months ago in the SlackDocs wiki... http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:sof...fox_pdf_viewer . You mean it has been enabled by default now? Can not check yet, not at home currently.

Eric

Can't check either ATM as my usual mirror didn't sync yet. Just saw the announce on phoronix.com then on this page.

Yes, it's enabled by default now :)

Meh...just makes it closer and closer to a monstrosity trying to 'do it all'. Nothing, has ever worked well that tries to 'do it all'. Ever. I'll stick with SeaMonkey (which isn't really far behind) until I find something smaller and better again.

they just included an extension enabled by default, you can disable it if you prefer to use another helper...

for me it's a good thing, as I have one thing less to set up. ;)

I like the PDF viewer. Much more convenient than having to go through multiple steps to see it. Chrome has had it for a while and I'm glad Firefox has caught up.

One mozilla project that I'm also paying attention to is shumway. It's supposed to be a built-in flash replacement.

I've been using Shumway for a bit and it works very well.

Could the background color to be changed? I did not find anything to configure that. Default white background is too bright.

yesterday ff updated to 19
The thing is on my opensuse 12.2 the built in pdf reader is DAM# slow and jerky and almost useless
Okular in kde works WAY better

if you do not need it I would reset your default pdf reader/editor BACK as the default in 19

here is not like that, I was using this also when it wasn't included in firefox and was available at addons.mozilla.org, and always worked pretty fine...

Can be something machine/distro specific: have you checked if it has the same behaviour also on slackware?

this is a slackware thread so i will not hijack it

but i found that i did not care much for the built in reader
it is new so in time ....

I was telling that before only because suse and slackware packages are built in different ways so there *might* be differences (even between 32 and 64bit versions)... ;)

https://build.opensuse.org/package/v...roject=mozilla
http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackwar...fox.SlackBuild

I just tried the included viewer with FF. I didn't like it, so I changed the preference back to Okular. This doesn't mean there is anything wrong with the viewer, its simply that I just didn't like it.