Firefox 4.0

[brsboarder]

I recently upgraded to firefox 4.0 and am having trouble viewing pdf's without downloading them. They used to open right in ff with a plug-in but nothing seems to work. I tried reinstall adobe reader but that didn't help.

Anyone have success?

 

[bushbabywas]

There's a plugin that uses Apple's PDF engine in Firefox (see the last comment on that page for a link to download), but it will only work if you run FF4 in 32-bit mode (use get info, cmd+i in finder and tick checkbox for that). I don't think it will be updated to run in normal 64-bit FF.

So for future-proofing you might want to consider using an extension like this that automatically lets you view pdfs in google docs. It's a lot less elegant than viewing pdfs in safari or even chrome, but it's ok.

Really though, Mozilla should build some pdf viewing capabilities into Firefox.

 

[velocityg4]

Works fine for me in Windows. Guess you'll just have to wait until 4.0.1 or an update from Adobe for the Mac.

 

[rickyalan]

4.0 works for me here with both Mac and windows 7