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`.
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.