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Stats PDF Viewer PDF Viewer Open in PDF Reader Open in PDF Reader
User count 1,000,000+ 100,000+
Average rating 3.29 3.51
Rating count 2,630 49
Last updated 2023-07-10 2022-12-15
Size 2.97M 50.28K
Version 3.9.49 0.3.2
Short description
Uses HTML5 to display PDF files directly in the browser. Send PDF links directly to your favorite PDF viewer like Adobe Acrobat Reader
Full summary

PDF.js is a Portable Document Format (PDF) viewer that is built with HTML5.

PDF.js is community-driven and supported by Mozilla Labs. Our goal is to create a general-purpose, web standards-based platform for parsing and rendering PDFs.

This extension provides PDF.js as the default PDF viewer in Chrome.

If you want to use this viewer to view local files, visit chrome://extensions/?id=oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm and put a check before "Allow access to file URLs".

Please report any issues at https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues

Don't have a Github account? I also accept feedback at [email protected]

Known issue: PDF files generated via a form (POST request) cannot be viewed.

Contains opt-out telemetry since version 1.5.285, see https://github.com/Rob--W/pdfjs-telemetry#privacy-policy

The "Open in PDF viewer" extension opens PDF files directly in your favorite external PDF viewer application. To use the extension, right-click on a PDF link and select the "Open in PDF viewer" item. The extension downloads the PDF file in your default downloads directory and then executes the external command to open the downloaded file with the default PDF viewer (e.g. Adobe Acrobat Reader or FoxIt PDF reader).

Note that to execute an OS-level command, you need to install a native client. Native client installation guide appears on the first usage.

Features:

  1. Open PDF files from right-click context menu
  2. Transfer already opened PDF files to the external PDF viewer by pressing the browser's action button
  3. Detect PDF links and open them with left-click
  4. Open the external PDF viewer with a user-defined delay
  5. Supports most common PDF viewers

Change Logs: 0.1.1: It is now possible to define left-click open in default PDF reader from the options page. If this mode is enabled, the extension blocks the default action when a link with the PDF mime type is the target. 0.1.2:

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