View PDFs in Firefox 5

To date, people who wanted to view downloaded PDFs on a Mac have had three options:

• Use Safari's in-line PDF viewer plug-in to view PDFs in Safari.
• Use Firefox v3 and the Firefox PDF plug-in for Mac to view PDFs in Firefox.
• Use a current version of Firefox, download the PDFs, and view them in a PDF reader app.

That's right -- there was no way to view PDFs in Firefox 4 or 5 as one could do in Safari, because the Firefox PDF plug-in didn't work above Firefox 3.6.

That is, it didn't officially work. But it turns out that with some simple modifications, you can get this plug-in to work just fine in Firefox 5 and probably future versions of Firefox, thus allowing you to view PDFs in the browser once again.

• With the Applications folder open in Finder, do a Get Info on Firefox.
• Check the box for 'Open in 32-bit mode.'
• If Firefox is currently open, quit and relaunch it.
• Do ...

Source: http://feeds.macosxhints.com/click.phdo?i=1cd51200c1d6559071924ff78fded30e

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