Interviewed by CNN on 20/02/2013 09:15, Cruz, Jaime told the world: > MCBastos wrote:
>> The whole point of pdf.js is that it's not exactly a plugin. With >> plugins, the browser hands the file to an external process and just >> reserves a space in the screen for that external process to display the >> results. With pdf.js, all the rendering is done inside Gecko itself, >> which supposedly makes the experience more smooth and seamless. >> >> With that said... I'll probably end up disabling it. I much prefer >> downloading PDFs than reading them online. >> >> > If you don't want to read it online, a "Right Click/Save As" is all you > need to do. I've been using PDF.js for months now on 64-bit Ubuntu > because Adobe never released a 64-bit reader for Linux. On my 32-bit > laptop, I have the Adobe plug-in, but it is only Version 9. Looks like > Adobe is no longer developing the reader for Linux, so the support for > PDF.js just makes sense. I know that, but not all websites expose the actual PDF on the link in a right-clickable way, instead using redirects. For those, before I disabled the PDF plugin, I had to wait for the document to load and parse (which could take a while, for larger documents) and then use the save command. Which was annoying. Also, in my experience paging through a long PDF with lots of pictures (like, say, a motherboard manual) using a plugin is a dismal experience, compared to just saving it and reading it locally. And finally, I don't see much point in reading a PDF online -- PDFs are usually stable documents (like books) that you probably want to keep at hand even if your connection fails. The whole point of making a PDF file is that it's all self-contained like a book, with no external dependencies -- so you can use it offline. Since I was going to save the PDFs anyway, disabling the PDF plugin and letting the download manager or DownThemAll take over streamlined the process. I'm going to give pdf.js a try to see if it improves the experience compared to conventional plugins, but I'm not that optimist. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Nintendo Game Boy. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.15.2 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
