Firefox 19 in Beta, Built-in PDF Reader, More ARMv6 Support

[rpgplayer]

[citation][nom]annymmo[/nom]This is very neat of Firefox.Very pragmatic and useful.With support for video and audio you can use Firefox as a media player (Just open files on your hard drive.) And now as a document viewer.@randomizerThat's really inefficient of them. +1 for some necessary improvements.Maybe they could extend document viewing capabilities to opendocument format: There is already a project using javascript to achieve this:[/citation]
I recently found this out for myself. Surprisingly FF actually plays h.264 videos with around the same cpu usage as VLC.

 

[srap]

[citation][nom]annymmo[/nom]Maybe they could extend document viewing capabilities to opendocument format: There is already a project using javascript to achieve this:[/citation]
Unneeded, office softwares won't make a browser crash several times a day, and it is far less a source of vulnerabilities.

 

[martel80]

What took them so long?!!

 

[mitch074]

@randomizer: the need for a DIV around each character has probably something to do with character spacing, something HTML and CSS have no way of handling, while PostScript (the base behind PDF) does. They had 2 choices:
- either use a proprietary extension to define character spacing and any character metrics in Firefox (the latter is especially required with replacement fonts, to conserve document layout)
- or create a block around each character, and set its size and position as defined in the document.
Granted, the second is heavier and MUCH less clean than the former - but it's standards-compliant and should work in any browser on any platform.
If you want the Mozilla devs to improve this, push for more complete text rendering properties in the next versions of CSS.