Mozilla tends to be the internet browser of choice and is dominating the market. Today the company unveiled a new update that adds a new native PDF viewer for documents or books you read online. In the past, people had to rely on Adobe Reader or other plugins, but no longer.
The new PDF reader is a very welcome addition and should benefit anyone in the world that reads these types of documents. The PDF ebook format tends to be the longest lived and is ubiquitous on the internet. One of the boons of this new viewer, is that it is safer and more secure then relying on companies that tend to have a ton of security vulnerabilities.
Mozilla issued a statement that said “Today, the PDF.js project clearly shows that HTML5 and JavaScript are now powerful enough to create applications that could previously have only been created as native applications. Not only do most PDF’s load and render quickly, they run securely and have an interface that feels at home in the browser. As an added benefit of using standard HTML5 API’s, the PDF viewer is capable of running on many platforms (PC’s, tablet, mobile) and even different browsers. Last, performance will only get better as JavaScript engines and rendering performance continue to improve in browsers.”
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
