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Firefox ODFReader Extension

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Just found this in Wikipedia. There is a new Firefox extension which allows you to read ODF without downloading the 70-100MB OOo main program, in case you just want to view the document or you are on dial-up and it would take a long time to download the whole OOo package.

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peragrin ·
This is early alpha level software. Of course that is the great thing about Open Source, others can come along and help speed up the process. It would be great to view ODF files in firefox like one can do with PDF's.

With that said i wish them the best of luck and hope they keep on working.
zero0w Story submitter ·
I think it won't be like PDF reader, which preserves formatting down to the page layout level.

Instead it will transform the ODF to XHTML to be viewable in your Firefox browser. So far it does a pretty good job in converting text, bullets and numbering format.

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