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by hornbill 3970 days ago
Out of curiosity, how many users will be opening pdf using pdf.js? Is it widely used?

I was never comfortable with pdf.js and changed the setting to use the default pdf viewer in all my machines.

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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
I uninstalled PDF viewers and always use pdf.js to view PDFs these days.
I guess pdf.js will be advantageous if you are using browser always.

Most of the times, I have multiple pdf files open side by side. So I had a pdf viewer in the machine.

> I (...) changed the setting

You can rest assured that 99% of Firefox users won't do that.