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Re:Firefox 80 by signal11 on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @01:25PM (#24273710)

PDF as a native browser feature started IIRC with Chrome — until then, everyone had to use a plugin. I’ve always thought the reason Chrome built in a PDF reader was that Adobe Reader was really slow to start and brought the browsing experience to a jarring halt.

People would even put in “warning: pdf” text when linking to PDFs because of how Adobe Reader slowed people down.

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Re:Firefox 80 by foxdev on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:02PM (#24274098)

I thought PDF.js was the first implementation. Firefox added it in 2012.

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Re:Firefox 80 by signal11 on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @04:43PM (#24275862)

Chrome’s PDF viewer launched in Dec 2010[1] with v8.0.552.

The release notes do note that a benefit of the built-in viewer is that it’s sandboxed. That’s fair enough, I guess — the Chrome team had a bee in their bonnet about plugins going all the way back to the Chrome launch comic[2].

Interestingly the Chrome team were using svn back then — that’s how long it’s been :-)

[1] https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2010/12/stable-beta-ch...

[2] https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/big_28.html

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Re:Firefox 80 by muxator on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @04:00PM (#24275451)

This is my recollection, too. Firefox was first, with pdf.js

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