Lately when I download a PDF in Chrome and click the downloaded file in the bar at the bottom, it opens in chrome. I would like it to open in adobe as default, since I download mostly files with comments or stuff Chrome doesn't support anyway. I have seen this, but it makes chrome download all files and open them in Adobe. So what I want is: if I click a random PDF, it should open in the chrome browser, if I click a downloaded file from the bar at the bottom or from chrome://downloads it should open the file in Adobe. (Just as it used to be two weeks ago). Is that still possible?
14.8k 40 40 gold badges 108 108 silver badges 171 171 bronze badges asked Mar 31, 2014 at 8:27 Ramzi Kahil Ramzi Kahil 727 3 3 gold badges 12 12 silver badges 26 26 bronze badgesOpen the download list popup, right click on a PDF download from the list and select the option to Always open with the system viewer.
This works if want only downloaded PDFs to open in your external PDF viewer (Adobe Acrobat, Foxit Reader, etc.), you don't need to disable the Chrome PDF Viewer.
You should try this:
Hope this helps.
answered Apr 4, 2014 at 9:46 209 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badgesDone all versions of the two. Neither gave me what I wanted. Disabling 'Adobe PDF reader' made it download all PDFs.
Commented Apr 4, 2014 at 12:24Right click a pdf file on your system. Select Open with > choose a default program > Click on adobe reader . After this whenever you would click the downloaded file, it would open as a solo file outside of chrome in Adobe reader.
Commented Apr 8, 2014 at 7:48 I think you didn't understand what I want. Commented Apr 8, 2014 at 10:02Did you mention where that 'random pdf' is located? or What that random pdf signify? If your 'random pdf' is outside of chrome and you want it to open in chrome. You just have to change the default program. And in my experience, you can't have two default programs for two different situations for a single file type.
Commented Apr 8, 2014 at 10:33As of Chrome Version 67.0.3396.87 (Official Build) (64-bit), chrome://plugins/ gives: This site can’t be reached The webpage at chrome://plugins/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. ERR_INVALID_URL
Commented Jun 23, 2018 at 23:15In Chrome, type chrome://plugins/
Find the Chrome PDF Viewer and click Disable
From your browser, click a PDF file; it should show at the bottom as a downloaded file.
Click the arrow next to the downloaded file, and choose Always open files of this type (You may need to manually click Open on any recent files you want to view, otherwise. )
The next time you click a PDF file, it should open however your computer is configured to open PDF files. If that method is via Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat (standard, pro), then that should meet the need you expressed in your question.
1- Go to chrome://settings. 2- Click on "Privacy" --> "Content Settings". 3- At the bottom, click on: "PDF Documents" --> "Open PDF files in the default PDF viewer application". This should solve the problem!
1- Instead of 1 & 2, you can navigate to: chrome://settings/content
2- You can click on the file name's small (upside) arrow in the "Downloads bar" at the bottom, and, click on "Always open with system viewer". However, this works only for this downloaded file, not other downloads (it should be a bug though)!
3- After doing the above three steps, when you click on a file in the download bar, it first opens another tab and closes it quickly (another bug, which is a little annoying)! But then opens the file in your PDF viewer anyway.
4- Previously you could control this from chrome://plugins which is now removed from Chrome (57 and later versions). So you just ignore what you found on the web about chrome://plugins.
