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June 23, 2008

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View PDFs from the comfort of your own Firefox

Posted Jun. 23, ’08, 2:14 PM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Internet

Firefox PDFI’m not much of a Firefox man on OS X—I prefer the relatively comfort of Safari, with Camino serving as my backup and Firefox as more of a backup backup. Still, I know plenty of people have love for the ‘fox, and I respect that. However, it does mean I’m a bit disadvantaged when it comes to answering people’s questions about Firefox—such as how you can get a PDF to open in the browser window rather than downloading and launching a separate application. Annoying, right?

Fortunately, I can now solve that issue for those of you who have been shaking your fist in frustration (including my ultimate frisbee teammate Phil). With the release of Firefox 3 and the help of a simple extension for Firefox, inline PDF viewing can now be yours—for the low, low price of free. I gave it a whirl myself and it seems to work a treat. Maybe it’ll help you out, too.


1 Comments

Call Me Yo Daddy Author Profile Page said:

Another extension for PDF viewing within Firefox is found here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636

I'm not sure if this works with Preview on a Mac though. I have no need of this on a Mac as I much rather view PDF's outside of the browser in Preview.

I just can't get with the Firefox thing on a Mac. I prefer by far, Safari 3, latest Webkit nightly builds (much faster), Saft and Inquisitor plugins.

The Apple way of browsing is so much better overall on a Mac. 

June 23, 2008 9:56 PM

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