Open Bug 1588634 Opened 5 years ago Updated 2 years ago

pdf-viewer should reload if file-content changes

Categories

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, enhancement, P5)

69 Branch
enhancement

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UNCONFIRMED

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(Reporter: aleks.stier, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [pdfjs-feature])

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:69.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/69.0

Steps to reproduce:

My usecase is when I write pdf-files in latex then I like to display the file in firefox with the builtin pdf.js extension. However, I need to frequently rebuild the file so the content of the file changes each time I recompile the respective latex-document.

Actual results:

The problem is that pdf.js does not show the updated content of the file when it changes. Instead I need to manually reload the pdf.js-site by pressing F5.

Expected results:

When a pdf-file changes on the local computer then the viewer should also update the displayed document with the new content of the file.

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Component: Untriaged → PDF Viewer

I opened a second issue which might be related. Its about adding an additional cli-option called reload which would reload all pages with the given url: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1588643

firefox --reload url

Priority: -- → P5
Severity: normal → --
Whiteboard: [pdfjs-feature]
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