How to open PDFs inside Firefox on Linux

Posted on July 19 2009 by Andre Noel

I was thinking about how to open a PDF file inside Firefox on Ubuntu, like the Acrobat plugin do on Windows, but using Evince.

So I “googled” about Evince and Firefox and found it quickly in the Lâmpada Azul site. Altought it has many steps, I used only the first and it worked very well. You have only to install the mozplugger package:

sudo aptitude install mozplugger

Alright. It may works now.

4 Responses to “How to open PDFs inside Firefox on Linux”

  1. Michael says:
    July 19, 2009 at 12:48 pm

    I was wondering whether this was possible the other day, but never got round to finding out.

    Thanks for the tip :) .

  2. Lantesh says:
    July 19, 2009 at 5:24 pm

    Thanks for the tip. That worked like a charm.

  3. jay says:
    July 19, 2009 at 10:08 pm

    This plugin is indeed nice. However, if you are using other plugins in Firefox that try and show media such as MP3/MPEG/WAV, etc. you may run into a conflict issue.

    Take the safe route and use Adobe’s official plugin. That is, if you’re willing to open up to NONFOSS.

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