Meet Firefox's Built-In PDF Reader 257
An anonymous reader writes "Not long ago, Mozilla coders announced that they were starting to build PDF.js, a way to display Acrobat documents in the browser using pure web code. No longer will you have to fight with an external PDF plug-in in Firefox. Development on PDF.js has progressed to the point now where you can take an early peek at it. Huzzah!"
Will they ... (Score:2, Interesting)
Will they include any way to turn off automated content within PDFs? What measures will they take to protect my privacy?
May be the feature that drives me away from FF ...
Re:Good (Score:5, Interesting)
What's wrong with clicking the link and having the PDF launch in the viewer of your choice? This is significantly increasing browser footprint and attack surface for no appreciable benefit.
Re:Good (Score:5, Interesting)
But it's not increasing the attack surface at all. If it's pure javascript, the interpreter is already there anyway. Any attack on PDF.js would exist in the interpreter independently of PDF.js. In fact, this reduces the attack surface by requiring one less program to accept arbitrary data from the network.