Firefox to follow Chrome’s lead on Flash, PDFs
As part of efforts to remove generic plugin support, Mozilla's Project Mortar explores alternative approaches to providing non-web platform technologies, starting with the Firefox browser's handling of PDF rendering and Flash support.
The newly unveiled project looks to deliver these technologies cheaper while providing a better user experience. To that end, Mortar will explore the possibility of bringing Google's PDFium library, used in the Chrome browser, and the Pepper API-based Flash plugin
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