Show PDF inline

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Team

Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

The current handling of PDFs in Firefox isn't great. The plugin-based renderer on Windows has several issues, and the situation on the Mac is that there really isn't a good renderer available for PDFs.

We want to be able to show PDFs inline in the browser on at least the majority of the platforms we support, and be able to wrap our own UI around it to support things like viewing and saving to disk, etc.

Goal: Make viewing of PDF in the web browser as painless as possible.

2. Users & use cases

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3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

• Ability to view a PDF document inline on Windows, Mac OS X, and possibly Linux.

Non-goals

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Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

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Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

Use the PDF.js renderer

Alternatives that were considered, but decided against:

1. Use the platform support for PDF in the cases where it's available, e.g. on Mac OS X via PDFkit: http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/
2. We could also do a hybrid approach, e.g. use Adobe plugin on Windows, and PDFkit on the Mac.

8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

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Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

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Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

Landed in m-c during Firefox 14 cycle. Uplift criteria include

• getting past the add-on manager warnings (moving the add-on to a different directory, according to Mossop)

Feature details

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