History of View and edit PDF files using Firefox’s built-in viewer

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Revision Status S Editor R Comment
Unreviewed   Flavius Floare Do no approve or edit until 11/11. See Bug 1987517.
Current M Mozinet removed language code in Mozilla URL, used formatting as usual, and made minor edits
Approved M AliceWyman Download->Save button, other edits
Approved M YD For consistency, replaced "{button Add signature} button" with the appropriate icon
Approved M Michele Rodaro Minor edits
Unreviewed   AliceWyman Add a signature to a PDF: [[Template:progressiverollout]]
Unreviewed   AliceWyman Add a signature to a PDF: for fx137+
Approved M Dayani Lucia G.F. Bug 1945832
Approved   Mozinet click on/click harmonization and comma corrections
Approved M Dayani Lucia G.F. Added additional request
Approved M Dayani Lucia G.F. Bug 1940801
Approved M Lucas Siebert Added related article
Approved M AliceWyman updated search summary, other minor edits
Approved M Lucas Siebert Restructured the content architecture
Approved MT Lucas Siebert Empty revision - Title updated due to content being split into two articles - see previous edits.
Approved M Lucas Siebert Updates to intro+Use viewer section. Added related articles section.
Approved MT Lucas Siebert With the expansion of PDF features in Firefox, the content got pretty large, so I split it into two articles. Take a look at the new one: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/choose-your-preferred-pdf-viewer-firefox
Approved   Mozinet purged pre-106 content and added a missing space
Approved MT Lucas Siebert Bug 1867513. {for fx124} -> {for fx125}
Approved M Mozinet fixed lines and spaces (RFL?)
Approved   AliceWyman Highlight in PDF files: {for fx124} (bug 1867830)
Approved M AliceWyman Highlight in PDF files: hidden for now. Please approve RFL (see bug 1867830)
Reviewed M AliceWyman Empty edit (mark RFL?) - see discussion Highlight Editor off by default in 122? (bug 1867830)
Approved   AliceWyman Highlight in PDF files {for fx122} -> {for fx123} Staff review/approval required ... and removed useless link
Approved MT Lucas Siebert Bug 1867830 - Instructions for highlighting in PDF files added using {for fx122}
Approved M Lucas Siebert Note about prompt for setting Firefox as the deault PDF viewer (V120)
Approved   AliceWyman Add an image... Alt text: list markup
Approved M AliceWyman Add an image...: removed 3rd-level headings to shorten TOC; separate Alt Text steps
Unreviewed   AliceWyman single heading: =Use Firefox’s built-in PDF Viewer=
Approved M Mozinet click on/click harmonization, standard character encoding, proper image in list code, and minor edits
Approved M AliceWyman Add an image... is {for fx119}; note about availability (gradual rollout - see discussion)
Approved M Lucas Siebert Reorganized the content order and headings
Unreviewed   AliceWyman Add an image... note about availability (see discussion)
Unreviewed   AliceWyman Add an image... is for fx119+ (gradual rollout per 119 release notes -see discussion)
Approved MT Lucas Siebert Bug 1858198
Reviewed M Medhasree Suram I have added the picture for Linux - Applications drop down menu.
Approved M AliceWyman deleted pre-fx98 content
Approved M cor-el fixed missing trailing ';' in Ctrl/Command++
Approved M Lan updated toolbar
Approved M Paul Request from Product to split Annotate out under it's own heading
Approved M AliceWyman Annotate for fx106
Approved M Paul Added annotation controls ahead of Fx 106
Approved M Lan Updated screenshots
Approved M AliceWyman Article has a generated share link. Removed extra link.
Unreviewed   Artist replaced share link (removed en-us) to lead to each corresponding locale
Approved   AliceWyman small edit to last revision
Approved M AliceWyman Firefox’s built-in PDF Viewer: This is the "Open in Firefox" setting
Approved   Denys Fixed a misprint.
Approved M Andrew Edit shortcuts to match https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-quickly#w_pdf-viewer
Approved M AliceWyman edited search summary, third-party-> different, other edits
Approved M AliceWyman Use a third-party PDF viewer for downloaded PDF files: edit for mac
Approved M AliceWyman "Use a third-party PDF viewer for downloaded PDF files" edits for fx98 (needs review & image for mac)
Approved M AliceWyman Use a third-party PDF viewer for downloaded PDF files: update for mac
Approved M AliceWyman Use a third-party PDF viewer for downloaded PDF files: new images, other edits (need to review for mac)
Approved M AliceWyman Choose another PDF viewer or set Firefox to always ask: New section with note for fx98
Approved M AliceWyman Firefox’s built-in PDF Viewer: new Image, how to save PDF file
Approved   AliceWyman updated link to renamed article
Approved   AliceWyman updated link to renamed article, removed pre-fx91 content
Approved   Bithiah Placed link for sharing
Approved M AliceWyman reorganized sections and removed pre-fx78 content
Approved   Jeff Minor punctuation updates.
Approved M Pascal Chevrel Acroform support was shipped in Firefox 83, not 81 (81 had an experiment only)
Approved M Angela Lazar New Fx 81 feature, fill out interactive PDFs
Approved   PGGWriter Made small improvements to article readability
Approved   Artist removed duplicate "the" (and spare spaces)
Approved M YD Error on keyboard shortcuts corrected
Approved M AliceWyman {for fx78} Set Firefox to ask you what to do with PDF files; other edits
Approved   Hopeless Host added "Page Up" and "Page Down" shortcut keys PDF viewer section
Approved M AliceWyman new Applications-PDF images for mac
Approved M AliceWyman [fx77] "Preview->Open in Firefox" since fx77 ( bug 1581383)
Approved M AliceWyman [fx78] "Open in Firefox" is also for mac, linux (see discussion)
Approved M AliceWyman update for win, fx78 (bug 1506416)
Approved M AliceWyman Disable the built-in PDF viewer and use another viewer: added note on "Preview in Firefox", removed outdated content
Approved   AliceWyman Search summary edited, other small revisions; see discussion on article title
Approved M Angela Lazar Changes for Bug 1631359 and removing old content
Approved M Artist exclude the plugin part after fx52, pls also see discussion
Approved M AliceWyman [Fx55] mimeTypes.rdf file changed to handlers.json (bug 1287658)
Unreviewed   philipp adapt troubleshooting info for firefox 56
Approved M AliceWyman Using a PDF viewer plugin: reworded
Approved M AliceWyman Using a PDF viewer plugin: Adobe Reader plugin name is "Adobe Acrobat"
Approved M AliceWyman PluginSupportEOL template added (bug 1269807) and other edits
Approved M AliceWyman Using another PDF viewer: reworded, changed Mac warning. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/pdf-files-are-blank-or-cause-error-message-mac/discuss/6789
Approved   Tonnes remove "to", add space
Approved M AliceWyman added warning for mac not to use the Adobe Acrobat plugin; other edits
Unreviewed   AliceWyman changed Intro, new "Using another PDF viewer" heading, other edits
Unreviewed   AliceWyman removed link to Schubert|it PDF Browser Plugin for Mac (no longer available)
Reviewed M AliceWyman updated article, removed outdated content
Approved   scootergrisen Maybe better to see what text goes with what image
Approved   Lan Big letter keys and removed ShareArticle
Approved   Jesant13 I added a period.
Approved M AliceWyman shorcuts -> keyboard shortcuts
Unreviewed   scoobidiver PDF Viewer shortcuts
Approved   Tonnes typos
Approved M Michael Verdi Addressing issues in discussion thread https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/view-pdf-files-firefox-without-downloading-them/discuss/4755#post-8134
Unreviewed   Michael Verdi Another version combining Alice and Madperson's edits, added section about the toolbar functions, removed mac only section that is no longer applicable
Approved M AliceWyman incorporating revision by madperson with other changes - see discussion
Approved M philipp in firefox 19 "portable document format (pdf)" has to be changed to use a third party PDF plugin to work in firefox
Approved   Michael Verdi fixed typo
Approved M Michael Verdi removed keywords already in the article
Unreviewed   Michael Verdi Updates for Fx 19 - PDF viewer now built-in
Approved M scoobidiver fixed links, downloading instead of disabling, blank pdf on Mac, OS X 10.5 case, removed useless for
Approved M ideato mozillazine link to MimeTypes.rdf
Approved   Aleksej not telling NoScript users to disable it completely
Approved M Michael Verdi removed mac case for blank pdfs (resolved), removed fx3.6 info
Approved M Swarnava Sengupta added the Share this article template
Approved M Michael Verdi based on the last revision, added new summary
Unreviewed   Underpass added "Nitro PDF reader" to the PDF readers for Windows
Approved M Michael Verdi simplifed intro
Approved M scoobidiver PDF Viewer official name of PDF.js, new UI (image edited in Media Gallery)
Unreviewed   Nybble Rewrote the intro para. as a bulleted list for increased readability. Commas added to summary.
Unreviewed   mgatkin Just fixed a couple of grammatical errors that I noticed
Approved M Michael Verdi shorter version of Matt's new summary
Approved M Matt_G Added "blank" to the search summary. This is a top issue right now and we don't specifically mention it in the article.
Approved M Michael Verdi added a section for a mac issue with the adobe reader plugin
Approved M scoobidiver added note about pdf.js in Beta, removed fr/
Unreviewed   scoobidiver added pdf.js, added keywords
Approved M Thomas No option in Linux (German preferences page: http://img7.imagebanana.com/img/eajr324y/BildschirmfotoVoreinstellungen.png)
Approved M scoobidiver removed ref. to Adobe Reader on Mac, reworded last sentence in each section
Unreviewed   scoobidiver merged Mac and Win/Linux parts, added other PDF plugins, removed "re-install the plugin" section as the local folder is no longer used, fixed displaying issues and broken links, added summary
Unreviewed   Chris Ilias specify that "Only the first page is visible" only applies to Leopard and below. Apple removed it in QTX

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