Chrome force pdf to download

Turns out you can disable the internal viewer but you're trading it for opening in whatever app is registered to view PDFs. I tried it and it worked for me, but only for this one session. If it doesn't work for you, try it again in incognito mode.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. The issue may have to do with the way files are served by web servers. Community Bot 1. Vinayak Vinayak Not working! As other answers here and other places, this leads them to be opened in external viewer Acrobat or Edge , regardless of Content-Disposition. There is no way to just download pdf-s like it is possible with other file types. But the same thing happens with any gmail pdf attachment, when I click "download" arrow.

There are two problems with this 1 privacy - as I am working in open plan office and sometimes dealing with private documents from my clients, so I don't want everyone to see them, especially when there are images, and 2 as there is no normal download button after downloading, I have to manually find downloaded pdf in default downloads folder to move them to archive folders. Checked Chrome bugtracker - this is recurring problem there, but always gets closed with "Can't reproduce". Funnily this happens to me in both my work and on my home PC.

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Working Remotely Show all articles 18 Collapse Articles. Bu not everyone will want to install another browser just to download PDF files. Doing so will make Chrome download PDF files instead of opening them. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.

Learn how your comment data is processed. I have a 5 years old Chromebox not Chromebook and this issue goes on and off randomly and I forget if the settings should be from the device or from the browser settings.

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