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async5on Amazon joins in on killing Flash, stops accepting Flash ads

Shumway can be used as a runtime for those movies - the site owner just to need fallback to its HTML player. It plays common ActionScript 1/2/3 usages well.

async5on Firefox exploit found in the wild

Exactly!

async5on Firefox exploit found in the wild

There is also https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer/oemmndc... :)

async5on Firefox exploit found in the wild

Market share... and ignorance of users :)

async5on Firefox exploit found in the wild

There are not exploitable (at least not the same way). Firefox PDF viewer is a modification of PDF.js, so PDF.js code would run in the browser without a web server. The exploit might poke a hole in EMBED tag security of the web browser (and not in the PDF.js code itself). WP plugin shall be safe as any web application (unless it introduces similar security hole in its code, e.g. XSS).

async5on Firefox exploit found in the wild

For users that are opted in telemetry reporting, it can go up to 40M PDF views per browser version [1]

  [1] http://telemetry.mozilla.org/dist.html#!cumulative=0&end_date=2015-06-05&max_channel_version=beta%252F38&measure=PDF_VIEWER_USED&min_channel_version=nightly%252F38&product=Firefox&sanitize=1&start_date=2015-03-04&trim=1&use_submission_date=0

async5on Firefox exploit found in the wild

And even latest here http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.co.il/2015/07/stable-ch... - 5 of them has pdfium

async5on A tool that converts PDFs to SVG, built using PDF.js

Original PDF - 1.0M, SVGs - 7.7M, gzip'ed SVGs - 1.7M. I think the latter is a preferable format for the web, so you are looking 70% increase for this types of documents, but bare in mind that you may send only certain pages.

async5on A tool that converts PDFs to SVG, built using PDF.js

Now you have alternative to not use PDF (viewer)?

async5on A tool that converts PDFs to SVG, built using PDF.js

What does "the fonts are not kept" mean? http://pramodhkp.github.io/pdf2svg/svgdump/tracemonkey-1.svg looks as original PDF page and the SVG contains embedded fonts.

async5on An even slimmer pdf.js

Just a hint: "pdfjs.disabled" is hard switch off and it makes it harder to recover native PDF plugin viewing capability. Switching using Preferences/Options->Applications makes it easier. Try it and stop complaining that you don't have a choice :)

async5on PDFium: Chrome’s PDF rendering engine is now open-source

Per https://code.google.com/p/pdfium/issues/detail?id=1 : "Looks like the standalone build system is not yet present."

async5on PDFium: Chrome’s PDF rendering engine is now open-source

Except one does not provide protection from the patents.

async5on PDFium: Chrome’s PDF rendering engine is now open-source

It looks like they did it in a hurry (on the next day) just after https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/how-fast-is-pdf-js/ was published? Competition FTW!

async5on FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support DRM

> H.264 is a public standard that anyone is free to implement.

That's correct -- you can implement it. But you have to pay for its usage. See http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/AVC_TermsS...

EDIT: guess who is paying for this?

async5on How fast is PDF.js?

> If client side rendering is too slow, then don't render on the client. Cache the rasterized pdf as tiles up in the cloud and only read the actual document...

Some people are not comfortable with giving their financial/proprietary/secret information to third party's "cloud". And since they have to pay for "cloud", you end up paying for it somehow at the end. With client side code: 1) nobody knows what you are looking at, 2) and you don't rely on network connectivity much.

async5on How fast is PDF.js?

Filing nothing will not be helpful for sure. Creating a report in any related bug reporting system will bring developer's, QA's or manager's attention. Just provide enough information, so somebody else except you can reproduce the problem.

async5on How fast is PDF.js?

Is it https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760997 ?

async5on How fast is PDF.js?

right... http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search-results?query=mupdf...

async5on How fast is PDF.js?

Yes, you can build you own personalized extension for Firefox, Chrome or Opera from PDF.js source code, which will disable text layer. (see also #textLayer=off feature at https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/wiki/Debugging-pdf.js#url-...)

async5on How fast is PDF.js?

Here is telemetry data from beta users about size of PDFs http://telemetry.mozilla.org/#beta/29/PDF_VIEWER_DOCUMENT_SI... -- typical PDF size is about 200KB, and 11MB is less 20% of them.