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Re:Firefox introduces PDF viewer by cynwoody on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @04:00PM (#5253320)
> While Mozilla are pumping out stellar designs like this, Google are pushing crap like Native Client and their proprietary, binary-only Foxit Reader solution instead, complete with the hundreds of thousands of LOC of insecure C this entails.

Given how well PDF.js runs using Mozilla's JS engine, I have to wonder how well it would perform with V8.

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Re:Firefox introduces PDF viewer by mccr8 on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @05:10PM (#5253714)
You can try it out for yourself here by loading this URL with Chrome: http://mozilla.github.com/pdf.js/web/viewer.html
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Re:Firefox introduces PDF viewer by cynwoody on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @11:04PM (#5255298)
That's outstanding, even if the graphical figures still need work.
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