Firefox 19 Released With Built-In PDF Viewer

Mozilla has announced the release of Firefox 19 featuring a new built-in PDF viewer.

Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux introduces a built-in browser PDF viewer that allows you to read PDFs directly within the browser, making reading PDFs easier because you don’t have to download the content or read it in a plugin like Reader. For example, you can use the PDF viewer to check out a menu from your favorite restaurant, view and print concert tickets or read reports without having to interrupt your browsing experience with extra clicks or downloads.

What’s New in Firefox 19:
● NEW: Built-in PDF viewer
● CHANGED: Canvas elements can export their content as an image blob using canvas.toBlob()
● CHANGED: Startup performance improvements (bugs 715402 and 756313)
● DEVELOPER: Debugger now supports pausing on exceptions and hiding non-enumerable properties
● DEVELOPER: Remote Web Console is available for connecting to Firefox on Android or Firefox OS (experimental, set devtools.debugger.remote-enabled to true)
● DEVELOPER: There is now a Browser Debugger available for add-on and browser developers (experimental, set devtools.chrome.enabled to true)
● DEVELOPER: Web Console CSS links now open in the Style Editor
● HTML5: CSS @page is now supported
● HTML5: CSS viewport-percentage length units implemented (vh, vw, vmin and vmax)
● HTML5: CSS text-transform now supports full-width
● FIXED: Certain valid WebGL drawing operations are incorrectly rejected, leaving incomplete rendering in affected pages (825205)
● FIXED: Starting Firefox with -private flag incorrectly claims you are not in Private Browsing mode (802274)
● FIXED: Plugins stop rendering when the top half of the plugin is scrolled off the top of the page, in HiDPI mode (825734)


You can download Firefox 19 from here.

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