I want to change the default behavior of Chrome so that when I click on a pdf link it opens in Adobe Acrobat instead of Chrome’s PDF viewer.
Is this possible?
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Sign up to join this communityI had the same problem myself. I was able to solve it in the following way:
chrome://plugins/
If you now select a PDF file, it will open in the default viewer; at least it does on my system, Arch Linux.
I found the information on the following discussion on the Google Product Forums.
chrome://settings/content/pdfDocuments
Jan 17, 2021 at 14:56
No longer accurate -- see this answer
As of April 2017 (perhaps a bit earlier), the chrome://plugins
dialog has been eliminated from Chrome. The new way to make this setting, as said by @Fadeway this past March, is
to go to
chrome://settings/content
and enable "Open PDF files in the default PDF viewer application"
which is at the extreme bottom of the dialog.
chrome://settings/content/pdfDocuments
Jan 17, 2021 at 14:56
As of August 2017 or Chrome 60, this changed (again). You can no longer just disable the viewer, you can only set Chrome to download the PDF or not. The setting can be found here:
chrome://settings/content/pdfDocuments
It may be sufficient to start Acrobat or Reader, choose Edit | Preferences, go to the Internet pane and remove the checkmark next to "Display PDF in browser"