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Comment by pjc50

Useful reminder: you can set "pdfjs.disabled" in about:config to turn it off and redirect PDFs to a native app of your choice.

The concept of rendering PDFs in the browser isn't fundamentally bad, but large files crashing the browser is a disaster. This happened with Adobe as a plugin and it continues to happen.

Now if someone can provide a means of un-embedding streaming video as well, that would be very useful.

parent pjc50 12 years ago

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