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   Firefox 19

   Agen G. N. Schmitz

   Mozilla does the time warp again, bumping up its [1]Firefox Web browser
   to version 19 (just five weeks after the release of version 18). The
   big news is that Firefox has now gained an HTML5-based, [2]built-in PDF
   browser, enabling you to view PDFs directly in the browser window
   instead of first downloading the file and opening in your favorite PDF
   reader or relying on a Firefox plug-in. (For a review of the hoops one
   had to jump through to view a PDF in Firefox before the release of
   version 19, see Steve McCabe's "[3]Wrangling PDFs in 2012's Web
   Browsers," 1 June 2012.)

   With a few more options than Google Chrome's built-in viewer, the
   Firefox PDF browser offers a full-screen mode, page numbering, several
   zoom presets, and thumbnail views in addition to standard download,
   print, and zoom in/out functions. It also provides a way to copy the
   current view of a PDF into another tab window, which is a handy
   bookmark workaround when you're reading through a long document.

   [4]Image

   The update also brings a number of developer-related goodies, including
   debugger support for pausing on exceptions, a Remote Web Console for
   connecting to Firefox for Android or the Firefox OS, and the capability
   to open Web Console CSS links in the Style Editor. (Free, 37.2 MB,
   [5]release notes)

References

   1. http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/new/
   2. https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/01/11/mozilla-tests-a-built-in-secure-pdf-viewer-in-firefox-beta-leveraging-the-power-of-html5/
   3. http://tidbits.com/article/13018
   4. http://tidbits.com/resources/2013-02/firefox19-controls.png
   5. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/19.0/releasenotes/

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