Tibor's Musings

Chromium and PDF

Chrome displays PDF files natively inside the browser via a closed-source libpdf library. This library is naturally not included in Chromium, the open source brother of Chrome. Can one achieve the same functionality with Chromium?

If one wants to display PDFs inline with Chromium too, one technique is to extract …

Emacs Bindings in GTK Applications

Emacs offers many functionalities natively; I routinely use it for writing, email, news, chat, programming, web browsing, image viewing, and much more. Sharing the same environment and the same keyboard shortcuts everywhere is good for productivity. However, what if one uses a standalone GTK application such as Chromium or Pidgin …