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reply to Racerbob

Re: [FireFox] Firefox 19.0 Final

reply to Racerbob
Either I have finally adjusted to it or this fixed the font rendering errors that came with the later updates of 18.

reply to jmorlan
Great idea Mozilla. All these years of telling people to open PDFs in a separate application (either it be Adobe, FoxIt or whatever your preference may be) and/or save PDFs in a download folder, scan them and then open them if they're safe as it's more secure that way...will be all for naught with this built in viewer since it's turned on by default.

More and more signs that Mozilla is or is fast becoming as bad as Google with Chrome.

"...it will come down to how solid the JavaScript and HTML5 implementations are in the browser. "I would expect any vulnerabilities in these implementations to affect the PDF viewer too," he said."

reply to kickass69
I do not see the big issue as long as an AV is set to scan files before opening them. For those that have an AV installed that is.

Have you visited Bugzilla to complain about this feature or just here where it is doubtful anyone from Mozilla would see it?

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reply to siljaline

Thanks for this, Oleg

reply to Racerbob

Re: [FireFox] Firefox 19.0 Final

reply to Oleg
Some sites | pages are proving slower to load than expected. • anyone else ?

Yup noticed the same thing this morning after updating.
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reply to Oleg

I had to disable Firefox built in PDF reader. Every PDF I opened made my laptop fans sound like a jet engine. They speed up fast and the laptop gets very warm. Adobe Reader plugin will sometimes make my fans speed up but it was not as bad.

In my point of view. It was a bad idea for Mozilla to implement PDF viewer into FF. it can cause issues with other PDF add ons, security vulnerability, and instability issues.

You can atleast head into about:config and look up 'pdfjs.disabled' and switch it to True and switch 'pdfjs.firstRun' to False.

reply to Oleg
The viewer can be disabled, rather easily--it'll even prompt you to use another viewer if the document seems to be "above its capabilities" to render. As far as stability issues go, initial releases of anything tend to be relatively less than desired; but that's what version 3.0 is for (so, 1.0 down [though this "initial" release has already received significant development time and continues to receive such], 2 to go)--and you can't have v3.0 w/o having v1.0 first. Lastly, I don't think enough users understand that the viewer is simply taking advantage of new support that's being added to the browser (e.g. HTML5) anyway for a "changing world". The viewer will pretty much just make viewing PDFs about the same as viewing a fairly static web page.
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"Face piles of trials with smiles; it riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave."

Which comes back to what I said about reverting years of good security practices. The putting all your eggs in one basket scenario these browser makers want just adds more vulnerabilities with more vectors of attack.

Anyone relying on someone else's security practices in order to make themselves or their activities secure is--almost certainly--in for a rude awakening. My browser is way down on the list of things that concern me relative to security; and this viewer doesn't really change that. (I don't really "trust" either Mozilla or Google, or any other software vendor for that matter. But I trust that I'll need to keep using their products in order to do the things that I want to do, so it's a trade off. And so it goes...)
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"Face piles of trials with smiles; it riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave."

reply to Oleg
I'm know getting an application hang dialogue in some cases Oleg with Ad Block Plus in use.

Will post back the exact dialogue the next time I witness it.

It could be that other extensions causing FF to crash. If you are using Noscript extension try disabling it, and see if you are still experiencing crashes.