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		unwiredben on Feb 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox 2012 Roadmap published My understanding is that Google licensed the FoxIt PDF viewing engine to embed into their Chrome binaries. It probably isn't available in the open-source Chromium.

xxpor on Feb 14, 2012 [–]

I can confirm it isn't.

shmerl on Feb 14, 2012 | [–]

In KDE at least, KParts Firefox plugin does a very good job for PDF viewing, using Okular.

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