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Inline PDF viewing for Firefox 3? There's a plugin for that
If you've recently switched to Firefox for Mac, you're probably getting used to hearing all your problems answered with "there's a plugin for that." Well, here's one more problem plugins can solve: inline PDF viewing. Safari does it automatically, and you might be missing it if you've switched recently.
You could always download the PDFs and open them with the notoriously slow Acrobat Reader or a faster 3rd-party app, but if you want them to open right in your browser, just grab this plugin. No frills here, the description on Google Code simply says it, "uses PDFKit to display PDFs in the browser." We tested it out on some huge PDF magazines, and it handles them just as well as Safari can.
[via Daring Fireball]
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Subscribe to commentsEdMercerJun 24th 2008 2:08PM
Now we Windows users need some alternative to Acrobat Reader too... hear it FoxIt ? Firefox 3 support pretty please !?
Gardiner WestboundJun 24th 2008 2:21PM
It's not compatible with FF3.
Jay HathawayJun 24th 2008 2:23PM
Hmm. It worked in FF3 when I was testing it. The screenshot there is from FF3. Are you using the Mac version? I don't think this works on Windows.
Gardiner WestboundJun 24th 2008 2:27PM
I didn't notice it's Mac only.
Harold CrackJun 24th 2008 3:08PM
Now if someone would just make a plugin that gives Firefox access to the Mac keychain. And then another to synch bookmarks with Safari/.Mac.
Harold CrackJun 24th 2008 2:58PM
Now if someone would just make a plugin that gives Firefox access to the Mac keychain. And then another to synch bookmarks with Safari/.Mac.
aanidaaniJun 24th 2008 4:09PM
"You could always download the PDFs and open them with the notoriously slow Acrobat Reader or a faster 3rd-party app, but if you want them to open right in your browser, just grab this plugin." Or you could open them in the notoriously fast Preview...
Jay HathawayJun 24th 2008 4:10PM
Preview is indeed pretty awesome, but some people don't like having to open another window when they could use a browser tab instead.
Joe BJun 25th 2008 10:12PM
Preview is great, and it's almost insulting that the post suggests that most Mac users rely on Acrobat Reader. Inline PDF viewing is definitely a great feature, though.
RocketboyJun 24th 2008 4:19PM
Huh? What's this Plug-in for use with Firefox? I've never heard of such a thing.