Make chrome stop downloading pdf

 · This article explains how to stop Adobe Acrobat Reader from automatically opening PDF files in your web browser by default. Instructions in this article apply to Adobe Acrobat Reader DC and Internet Explorer 8 and later. Specifies how PDF files are opened in Google Chrome. Chrome downloads PDF files and lets users open them with the system default application—The internal PDF viewer is turned off in Google Chrome, and PDF files are downloaded for users to open with the default application. It's impressed me so far from the start. Only going to use it to open and read PDF's in chrome, mainly my google drive. Tried it on a PDF already that's about pages and it opened and rendered the entire thing super fast. Scrolling and rendering the PDF is super quick and .

Open your browser and paste this into the address bar. chrome://plugins. Find the Chrome PDF Viewer plug-in and click "Disable". The plug-in will be gray after you disable it. Now, before downloading PDF-files, Chrome will not open them, but will offer you to save them in the specified folder. The browser offers you to choose a location to. Found a solution today. For me, disabling the setting "Open certain file types automatically after downloading", solved the issue. There seems to be some bug in this particular feature, it should not affect the downloading location of PDF files. Hoping this bug gets addressed in future Chrome versions. Google user. Whenever you download a PDF file, Chrome will automatically open it and show it to you online on the browser. For the people who take PDFs files seriously, Chrome PDF viewer is not the best PDF viewer they can use. Chrome default PDF viewer lacks in advanced features like annotation and marking.

On Windows Click on MS icon on left corner of the task bar (4 rectangles or windows sign)2. Right click Control panel Control Panel\Programs\Default Programs\Set Associations3. Sort by Description (Other available options are Name, Current Default)4. You will notice that the (Adobe Acrobat Document) PDF files have been associated with Chrome html or other similar file types like firefox etc5. Open Chrome, Go to SettingsAdvancedPrivacy and securityContent settingsPDF Documents. Turn off "Download PDF files instead of automatically opening them in Chrome". Tried going to settings and changing download settings. I do not see anything to change except options on where downloads go. No option to turn automatic download off so that i can see PDF's etc. in browser.