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Comment author: thomblake 27 June 2012 12:43:16PM 0 points [-]

It's a quick and easy way to view PDFs without downloading them onto my hard drive.

Just FYI, when you click a link and view content, that content has been downloaded onto your hard drive, even if you only see it on a browser window..

you may want to enable that feature in your web browser.

The browser PDF readers are even worse than standalone Adobe Acrobat (especially in Chrome, which is my primary web browser).

I'd rather just not support the use of such a broken file format.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 June 2012 03:30:40PM -1 points [-]

Really? I thought viewing it in my browser is more akin to streaming a video. But I could easily be wrong about that.

Ah, okay. I use Firefox with an Adobe Acrobat plugin. Not familiar at all with Chrome and other PDF readers.

Comment author: thomblake 27 June 2012 03:40:08PM 0 points [-]

I thought viewing it in my browser is more akin to streaming a video.

The difference is minor. FWIW, a better analogy might be downloading a video file to your browser's temp directory and then opening it in VLC to watch while it's still downloading.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 June 2012 03:44:37PM -1 points [-]

Gotcha. Thank you for the correction.

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