Make Chrome always open PDFs itself

Question

I'm looking for a way to make Google Chrome always open PDFs with its internal viewer when I click a link, as opposed to downloading it to the default location. It works with most URLs, but some servers set a special header to force the file to be downloaded ("Content-Disposition: attachment;", e.g. http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/46260.html).

What I want is the opposite of this question: Stop PDFs from displaying inside Google Chrome, or what is asked for here, but applied to Chrome: How to ignore “Content-Disposition: attachment” in Firefox

Btw., I'm running Chrome 8.0.552.0 dev on Ubuntu 10.4.

score 12 · Answer 1 · edited May 08 '14 at 10:15

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You can remove Content-Disposition response header using Redirector extension. Just add a rule removing Content-Disposition header. Here how it looks like in Rule Editor: redirector rule

With this rule applied all PDFs will be opened in internal viewer.

edited May 08 '14 at 10:15

and31415

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answered Sep 28 '12 at 10:23

ks1322

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 28 '23 at 22:55

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No PDF Download makes "Google Chrome always open PDFs with its internal viewer when [you] click a link, as opposed to downloading it to the default location."

answered Mar 28 '23 at 22:55

zylstra

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score -1 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 24 '12 at 20:45

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On the URL bar, type chrome://plugins/, look for the Adobe plugin and click on Disable.

Restart Chrome and load a PDF and the file will load using the Google PDF plugin.

edited Apr 24 '12 at 20:45

Mokubai

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answered Oct 14 '10 at 14:04

Cesar A. Rivas

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score -1 · Answer 4 · edited Jul 22 '13 at 08:30

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Try the --no-sandbox option.

This should be your shortcut:

"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --app="http://superuser.com" --no-sandbox

edited Jul 22 '13 at 08:30

slhck

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answered Jul 22 '13 at 08:20

styluuu

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Make Chrome always open PDFs itself

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