View PDF’s In Firefox 3 7
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I like using PDF’s. I don’t know why. Its just a format that always seems to work with the minimum amount of fuss. I like them so much that I get really annoyed if someone sends me a Word documents or similar instead of a PDF. Since PDF’s have become big business a lot of websites host them for you to view. Most normal browsers will display them as a normal web page. Firefox 3 doesn’t. This can get very annoying. There is a plugin which I will discuss today to get around this glaring hole.
If you go to Firefox-Mac-PDF (a brilliant original name) on Google Code you can install the extension. You do need to restart Firefox 3. But that isn’t a problem. When you are done and the plugin loads you can view PDF’s as you would on Safari or another webbrowser. This small hole is fixed. Brilliant.
You could see this plugin in two ways. One is a massive glaring hole in Firefox 3 that really should be fixed natively. The other being the ingenuity of the plugin base of Firefox 3. What ever you think it is a good plugin that I would recommend installing. I now don’t end up with millions of PDF files in my Downloads folder and wondering why a link didn’t open. If you right click on any PDF you do get a couple of view options to extend the functionality.
Where To Next?
7 Responses to “View PDF’s In Firefox 3”
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Why would you want Firefox to view them inline? Besides freezing it completely (at least in the days of Windows for me. Still does it since they still open inline for the Windows version of Firefox 3), you have little to no features to use. Why not use Preview which is, in my opinion, the best PDF reader available?
As for downloads… who cares? Just do a monthly cleanup of the folder and it should never become a space issue.
Comment By Josh on October 8th, at 9:35 pm
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The point is that it takes loads of hassle if you have to go through your downloads folder just to view a 1 page PDF. If you can view it in your browser it makes it a whole lot easier. Besides freezing I haven’t had any problems.
Comment By admin on October 8th, at 9:37 pm
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You could also just install the “download statusbar” plugin for firefox and it will show all the d/l’s on a status bar at the bottom/top of the screen and just double click on the file to open it up with whatever association the file type has. To me that’s the easiest way on both OSX and Win computers for any file that you download. Also if you use that plugin you can just option/right click the file in the status bar and open a new finder/explorer window in the folder it’s been downloaded to.
Comment By Graham on October 9th, at 7:50 am
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You can do that. But the point I am trying to make is that its an extra unnecessary step. You have to do all of this clicking. It is far easier if you just see the PDF on screen.
Comment By admin on October 9th, at 4:28 pm
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I’ve been looking for something like this for ages. thanks.
Comment By james on November 10th, at 10:01 pm
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I got this message at the top when I clicked “install”:
Firefox prevented this site (code.google.com) from asking you to install software on your computer
Now what?
Comment By Challenged on November 25th, at 4:09 pm
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Allow code.google.com to allow you to install the code.
Comment By admin on November 25th, at 8:49 pm