When you open an URL in chrome that leads to a PDF, the way Chrome deals with it depends on the way the server sends it. If the server serves the pdf as an attachment (using the content-disposition header), chrome opens a "save" dialog. Otherwise, the PDF will be shown "inline", as the web page. I often want to view pdf but don't care about having them on my hard drive. Is there a way to tell chrome, or another browser, to show a pdf inline, when it is sent as an attachment? In other words, can I tell Chrome to ignore the content-dispotion header for certain requests?
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The PDF Viewer extension doesn't have great reviews, and I haven't used it a lot yet, but the first time I tried it on a pdf that Chrome previously prompted to download it was displayed in the browser.
Possibly better, No PDF Download uses Chrome's viewer rather than a third-party viewer.
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