From the discussion in issue 7386, it wasn't really clear if we can restrict addon support to Firefox `45` (i.e. the version that corresponds to the *current* ESR version).
However, we have a bunch of code for *very* old Firefox versions. Hence this patch changes the minimum supported version to Firefox `38` (which was released on `2015-05-12`, and correspond to the *previous* ESR version), and removes code that only applies to old Firefox versions.
Regardless what we end up deciding regarding addon support for previous Firefox versions, given the amount of code that even the Firefox `>= 38` condition lets us remove, I certainly think that there is value in doing this.
One of the patches in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1202902, specifically [`Mass replace toplevel 'let' with 'var' in preparation for global lexical scope. (rs=jorendorff)`](https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/380817d573cd), touches PDF.js code. Unfortunately it was landed upstream without, as far as I can tell, notifying us about it.
This patch uplifts the relevant changes to avoid future merge conflicts, and for consistency also tweaks `PdfJs-stub.jsm`.
Fixes https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1170063.
The bug only mentions the <kbd>Meta</kbd> key, but given that a similar situation can occur for <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>, it seemed reasonable to also handle that case in the same patch.
The only possible caveat with the patch is that because of the use of `shadow`, things won't work perfectly if either of the prefs are changed *while* the viewer is active. In this case a reload is required in order for it to work correctly, but given that the issue this patch fixes should be quite rare anyway, that seems OK.
For some reason, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1167053 changed methods of `NetUtil` yet *again*. This patch thus attempts to handle those changes, while keeping the addon backwards compatible.
I've tested this using all current Firefox versions (Nightly, Aurora/DevEdition, Beta, Release, ESR), and things still appears to work correctly.
This patch removes the only remaining CPOW usage from the code-base, and should thus fix https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1071082.
*Note:* This will not fix the "Open With Different Viewer" button in e10s, since clicking it still fails with `frontWindow is null` in the console, but I do believe that that issue is somewhat orthogonal to the current patch.
This checks for both prefs on the understanding that we need to work on older versions of Firefox. If that isn't the case, the first part of the if isn't necessary. This should only land if bug 639134 is resolved - I'd make the patch part of that bug, but AIUI pdfjs's canonical repo is on github, so...
