A method and device for displaying documents in a browser

Abstract

The invention provides a method and a device for displaying a document in a browser. The method comprises the following steps: a plug-in independent progress corresponding to a document processing program is established by a browser host process according to a request for accessing the document by a user; the plug-in independent progress is a sub-progress of the browser host progress; the plug-in independent progress initializes a browser page; the browser page calls a plug-in of the document processing program to analyze the document to carry out page display. According to the method and the device for displaying the document in the browser, the utilization of the browser can be prevented from being influenced by loophole trojan horses of the document processing program, so as to further prevent a computer of the user from having viruses.

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[0001] The patent application of the present invention is a divisional application of the Chinese invention patent application with the filing date of March 06, 2012, the application number of 201210057484.4, and the title of "A Method and Device for Displaying Documents in a Browser". technical field [0002] The present application relates to the field of data processing, in particular to a method for displaying documents in a browser, and a device for displaying documents in a browser. Background technique [0003] The PDF format is an electronic document format. When a user clicks on a PDF file link on the Internet, the system does not directly open the file, but displays a file download window to ask the user whether to download the file. Download the designated PDF file to the hard disk, and then use the Acrobat Reader software, which is a special browser for PDF files, to browse. The operation is cumbersome and time-consuming. [0004] In order to help users better br...

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Problems solved by technology

[0005] The problem existing in the above prior art is that the current PDF program loopholes occur frequently. If the PDF file accessed by the browser is a Trojan horse virus that can trigger the PDF loophole maliciously constructed by an attacker, it will not only cause the browser process to crash and become unusable, but also cause the browser process to crash and become unusable. Download and execute a malicious Trojan horse without knowing it, poisoning the user's computer and possibly causing economic losses to the user

[0006] Similar to PDF programs, document processing programs such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint also have multiple vulnerabilities. When the plug-in of the document processing program is called in the browser to open the corresponding document, there will also be problems similar to PDF programs.

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