766901 - Option to preview attached PDF files in message reader (just like images)

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, enhancement)

Description

[Hong Xu]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1
Build ID: 20120614114901

Steps to reproduce:

Receive a new mail that has a PDF attachment


Actual results:

The PDF file is not previewed in the message window


Expected results:

PDF file previewed, just like JPG, PNG files.

Comment 1

[:aceman]

This may become possible if TB starts to bundle the pdf.js extension as Firefox does since v.15. Are there any plans for that?

Comment 2

[Landry Breuil (:gaston)]

Would be nice to have. A first step would be to ship chrome/pdfjs in omni.ja, since ffx 15 has it and tb doesnt. But first, pdf.js should be enabled by default in firefox...

Comment 3

[Landry Breuil (:gaston)]

btw according to http://adamdempsey.com/2011/12/leveraging-pdf-js-in-thunderbird/ you can do this with thunderbird conversations addon.

Comment 4

[Vincent (caméléon)]

note that I think that it wouldn't be a good idea to preview the pdf at the end of a message, because it can be quite long to load. Opening it in another windows or tab would be smarter (like outlook does for image file for instance).

Comment 5

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Thunderbird has started using PDF.js with version 91 last year. Depending on workflow/scenario, this might be an interesting option which may eliminate the need of having to open PDFs in a separate tab. It should be optional for the performance penalty risks mentioned.