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Firefox 19 launches with desktop PDF viewer

2013-02-20 09:31 by
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Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 19 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The improvements include a built-in PDF viewer on the desktop and theme support on Google's mobile platform.

The newest iteration of Firefox eliminates two bugs that previously slowed down the startup process. One issue caused Firefox to perform "expensive" page-loading before the browser window pops up on the screen, resulting in a sluggish launch process. Essentially, this means that previous versions of Firefox took way too long to open on the desktop.

The second bug, similar to the first, prevented Firefox from showing any visual indication that the browser is loading after clicking the program to launch it. Anyone who has endured the frustrating experience of accidentally launching multiple Firefox windows on their desktop after clicking the icon repeatedly will be relieved to know this bug has been resolved.

The biggest addition in this release is PDF.js, a JavaScript library intended to convert PDF files into HTML5, which was started by Andreas Gal and Chris Jones as a research project that eventually picked up steam within Mozilla Labs. Technically, the tool has been in Firefox for many versions, but you had to manually enable it. Now, Firefox 19 renders PDF documents for viewing and printing without requiring a separate plug-in, following a 2010 move by Google's Chrome.

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