Adobe was not paying Mozilla for anything like that. Chrome simply includes a paid closed-source product (FoxIt, iirc). This was and is not an option for Mozill

Adobe was not paying Mozilla for anything like that. Chrome simply includes a paid closed-source product (FoxIt, iirc). This was and is not an option for Mozilla for multiple reasons. It took Mozilla a while to get here, which is unfortunate, but the result is an open-source PDF reader that doesn't add yet another binary rendering engine to the browser (think security, hack-ability). Creating it made Gecko and the web platform better, because it pushed us. There is more work to do, but it's a great start and a welcome change to how these features are implemented. A bit more info in a blog post that I wrote: https://boomswaggerboom.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/exciting-stuff-firefox-19s-built-in-pdf-reader/ https://boomswaggerboom.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/exciting-st...