So, who hasn’t been turning the web up-side-down looking for an alternative to Adobe’s Acrobat Reader for Mozilla’s Firefox? Hm? No one? Damn straight “no one”! Here’s one of the first open source versions I’ve found for Windows:

Fitz, MuPDF and Apparition

Now, before you get your hopes up too far, this a reader only. It will open PDF documents in Firefox, but that’s about it. You can’t use it to print, zoom in/out, select text or any of the other things you normally do with Adobe’s Acrobat. So if I were using this (hey wait, I am using this!) I’d disable Adobe Acrobat’s open PDF in browser option, (edit>preferences – general tab, I think, hell if you dislike Acrobat that much, just uninstall it…), install MuPDF, then restart Firefox. Next install (if you don’t already have it installed) PDF Download, and your choice of PDF viewing software (I recommend Sumatra or Foxit Reader). Now you can use MuPDF to open PDFs in Firefox or use PDF Download to download it to your hard drive, OR use PDF Download to open the document in your favorite alternate PDF viewer.

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