477860 - No way to view PDF in browser window (nightly build)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Timothy Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090210 Shiretoko/3.1b3pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090210 Shiretoko/3.1b3pre

Since 3.1b3pre, there's no way to view PDFs in a window on a Mac.  The QuartzPDF extension is marked as incompatible, Adobe's plugin simply doesn't appear in the list, and that Nitro thing that converts to HTML just doesn't work (produces errors).

I'm rather fond of viewing PDFs in browser windows.  Any plans to fix this?

Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs which are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, have not been changed for 500 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10 or later, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the issue, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the status to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 2

[Timothy Miller]

This is still a problem.  There is no built-in PDF support, and there is no facility to automatically find the facility built into the system (on a Mac).

There is a plugin for this, but it's not very good.  The plugin uses PDFKit, but it burns CPU when idle, which is odd, since Safari also uses PDFKit but uses zero CPU when idly viewing a PDF.

Comment 3

[Timothy Miller]

Oh, and the plugin is always really really far behind the latest version.