Show PDF inline

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Status

Show PDF inline
Stage	Landed
Status	`
Release target	Firefox 18
Health	OK
Status note	Landed in Firefox 14 nightly but didn't make the uplift. Targeting Firefox 15 or 16.

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Team

Product manager	Asa Dotzler
Directly Responsible Individual	Alex Limi
Lead engineer	Bill Walker
Security lead	`
Privacy lead	`
Localization lead	`
Accessibility lead	`
QA lead	Mihaela Velimiroviciu
UX lead	`
Product marketing lead	`
Operations lead	`
Additional members	`

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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

The current handling of PDFs in Firefox isn't great. The plugin-based renderer on Windows has several issues, and the situation on the Mac is that there really isn't a good renderer available for PDFs.

We want to be able to show PDFs inline in the browser on at least the majority of the platforms we support, and be able to wrap our own UI around it to support things like viewing and saving to disk, etc.

Goal: Make viewing of PDF in the web browser as painless as possible.

2. Users & use cases

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3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

• Ability to view a PDF document inline on Windows, Mac OS X, and possibly Linux.

Non-goals

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Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

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Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

Use the PDF.js renderer

Alternatives that were considered, but decided against:

1. Use the platform support for PDF in the cases where it's available, e.g. on Mac OS X via PDFkit: http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/
2. We could also do a hybrid approach, e.g. use Adobe plugin on Windows, and PDFkit on the Mac.

8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

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Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

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Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

Landed in m-c during Firefox 14 cycle. Uplift criteria include

• getting past the add-on manager warnings (moving the add-on to a different directory, according to Mossop)

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We want to be able to show PDFs inline in the browser on at least the majority of the platforms we support, and be able to wrap our own UI around it to support things like viewing and saving to disk, etc.

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1. Use the platform support for PDF in the cases where it's available, e.g. on Mac OS X via PDFkit: http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/
2. We could also do a hybrid approach, e.g. use Adobe plugin on Windows, and PDFkit on the Mac.

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• getting past the add-on manager warnings (moving the add-on to a different directory, according to Mossop)

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Feature details

Priority	P1
Rank	999
Theme / Goal	Experience
Roadmap	User Experience
Secondary roadmap	Firefox Desktop
Feature list	Platform
Project	`
Engineering team	Services

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Team status notes

	status	notes
Products	`	Sorting out remaining requirements. Add-on blocked, Printing, Finding, and select, copy, paste discussed at last meeting.
Engineering	`	`
Security	sec-review-needed	Full Query ID Summary Priority Status 755957 SecReview: Show PDF inline P4 NEW 1 Total; 1 Open (100%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);
Privacy	`	`
Localization	`	`
Accessibility	`	`
Quality assurance	in progress	Test plan
User experience	`	`
Product marketing	`	`
Operations	`	`

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Full Query

ID	Summary	Priority	Status
755957	SecReview: Show PDF inline	P4	NEW

1 Total; 1 Open (100%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

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