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naner on May 24, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox 5 Beta is available for download

Right. Chrome uses a binary PDF reader plugin, there are no sources available. Open source projects like Chromium and Firefox require an open source reader. I think MuPDF would be a good choice.

abraham on May 24, 2011 [–]

Does MuPDF have any speed/performance/etc benefits over the plugin in Chrome? Are there any reasons to spend the time/effort to switched other then one is open source?

naner on May 25, 2011 | [–]

I wasn't talking about Chrome switching. MuPDF is an open source option for open source projects.

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