The Chromium project has announced that a new PDF plug-in will be integrated by default in the coming weeks.
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Chrome Adds On Native PDF Support
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At the moment, when you open a PDF, you're probably just running an instance of Acrobat Reader or something inside a browser frame (complete with its own toolbars, keyboard shortcuts, etc).
Yes. Foxit used to be great but it eventually became just as bloated and shitty as Adobe.
Can't say I agree.
I see no mention of security outside of the sandbox that Chrome uses. When will it become common knowledge that if you support every new "must have" feature, you are also enabling all the vulnerabilities that come with them. Merely disabling javascript in Adobe Reader blocks most of that readers exposure, will Chrome support javascript?
With all the feature requests in the comments of that thread, I feel that Google's PDF reader will become like Adobe, and maybe to a lesser degree, Foxit.
With all the feature requests in the comments of that thread, I feel that Google's PDF reader will become like Adobe, and maybe to a lesser degree, Foxit.
What? Foxit now has just as many useless features as Adobe that I'll never use, the UI is no cleaner than Adobe, updates pop up and annoy you just as often as with Adobe, and it's no faster than the current version of Adobe. How is that an improvement?
This is how Safari 5 does it, and I assume Chrome's implementation will be just as clean and simplistic. All I need to do is view, copy text from, and print pdf files. I don't need all that other bullshit.
This is how Safari 5 does it, and I assume Chrome's implementation will be just as clean and simplistic. All I need to do is view, copy text from, and print pdf files. I don't need all that other bullshit.
I stopped "reading" PDF files in the browser a long time ago, too much potential for too much shit to go wrong (my opinion). I always download PDFs for reading with a dedicated app personally (Reader Lite myself, stripped of everything not necessary and still the best PDF reader out there, again my opinion).
Some sites like to bury PDFs with Javascript links or some other obfuscating type of code but, those are always easy enough to work around.
Some sites like to bury PDFs with Javascript links or some other obfuscating type of code but, those are always easy enough to work around.
Like I said I went there and no entry...