2015-06-30

HOWTO: find out the PDF.js version built into Mozilla Firefox

To find out the version and build number of PDF.js (built into your installed version of Mozilla Firefox), you should visit a specific URL (if it doesn't work, just try to copy-and-paste it):
and look patiently at the beginning of that page.

E. g., for Mozilla Firefox 38.0.5 we can get the following:
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PDFJS.version = '1.0.1149';
PDFJS.build = 'bc7a110';

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(To view more of its internals, just visit resource://pdf.js/. Note: if you browse through that, the address will expand to a specific path pointing to some file inside some library-archive of Firefox, e. g., jar:file:///path/to/firefox/dir/omni.ja!/chrome/pdfjs/content/build/pdf.js).

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