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Microsoft have provided and excellent standards agreed format called XPS. Vista comes ready installed with an XPS viewer for XP you can download it. The issue is if your preferred browser is Firefox you will not be able to view XPS files.

The solution is simple:

  1. Download the IE tab addin for Firefox
  2. Install it
  3. Then the clever bit open options
  4. Set up a URL thus: /^file:\/\/\/.*\.(xps)$/
  5. Jobs a good ‘un.

Now if you click on and XPS file Firefox will open and IE tab and load it!!

posted on Saturday, November 8, 2008 8:43 PM

Feedback

# re: Reading XPS files using Firefox 3.X 2/14/2009 7:36 AM Mr Melby
Thanks so much for this tip!

# re: Reading XPS files using Firefox 3.X 2/20/2009 2:48 AM Pagemark
Or, you can download the firefox XPS plug-in from www.pagemarktechnology.com

Cheers.


# re: Reading XPS files using Firefox 3.X 4/15/2009 10:41 AM Rai
Thanks, that was very helpful. I love when stuff just works :)

# re: Reading XPS files using Firefox 3.X 6/1/2009 5:32 PM Bulldog
An elegant solution! Thanks very much!

# re: Reading XPS files using Firefox 3.X 11/4/2009 4:12 AM Gord Youngson
I tried, but is all I get is a blank tab "UNTITLED". Nothing shows up. When I open the XPS file in EXPLORER it opens fine.

# re: Reading XPS files using Firefox 3.X 11/9/2009 1:13 PM Rony
I prefer to use the XPS Annotator, no funny business and the error message..

# re: Reading XPS files using Firefox 3.X 12/7/2009 7:09 AM $av
A more simpler way is to open the IE tab in firefox, then drag and drop the xps file into the address bar... Ta da... it opens. :)

# re: Reading XPS files using Firefox 3.X 9/11/2010 1:35 AM DownTheShore
Thanks! Worked well on FF 3.6.8

# re: Reading XPS files using Firefox 3.X 9/12/2010 5:00 PM AthensBird
but it is still using IE to read xps. I really want to read .xps files with firefox itself, because I want the addons to be available in .xps.

# re: Reading XPS files using Firefox 3.X 9/30/2011 6:47 AM JW
Doesn't work anymore.

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