Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer (by Google)
Extension Actions
- Extension status: Unlisted
Automatically previews pdfs, powerpoint presentations, and other documents in Google Docs Viewer.
The "Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer" extension is now obsolete - we recommend trying Google's "Office Editing for Docs, Sheets & Slides" extension instead: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/office-editing-for-docs-s/gbkeegbaiigmenfmjfclcdgdpimamgkj
By clicking on a link for a supported document format you'll be taken to the Google Docs Viewer. No more downloading large files and launching another application just to view it.
The Google Docs Viewer does not work on files that require a log-in to view, but you can make it ignore specific domains in the options so you will still download the file.
On the options page you can also disable any file formats you don't want to use the Viewer for.
Please note that Chrome now has a PDF viewer which is separate from this plugin. If you prefer to use Google Docs to view PDFs then you can enable that in the options.
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v3.10
Updated to Chrome Extension manifest v2
v3.9
Disable MutationObserver usage as a memory leak exists in it. Thanks for the reports users!
v3.8
When available use new Mutation Observers to detect updates to the page. This is more efficient than the existing Mutation Events, and creates less burden on the browser.
v3.7
Fix Option Saving Bug
Add Zip, Rar types
v3.5
Removed context menu options to 'View File in New Window' and incognito window as these required extra permission to all page data. View File in New Tab should hopefully be good enough and it doesn't require those permissions.
v3.4
Replaced the context menu with a chrome api version. Requires the 'contextMenus' permission.
v3.3
Bug fix where new formats didn't show as auto-enabled in the Options panel
v3.2
Added new formats:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/02/12-new-file-formats-in-google-docs.html
Works on DOM changes made to a page after it's loaded.
Latest reviews
- C C
- This is a malware! It says (By Google) but it's not made by Google, avoid at all costs!
- Kathy K
- No longer opening many pdfs
- Inactive Account
- This doesn't work. The PDF file still downloads instead of opening in a preview. Avoid.
- Izumi W.
- recently buggy
- Dominik Adrian Grzywak
- Still good extension to force PDF preview instead of downloading it.
- D P
- Doesn't work
- Eric A
- I've used this for a long time successfully, but all of a sudden, it will no longer preview excel files.
- Jodie Lerner LMHC
- Does not work at all!!! Going back to Explorer!!
- Simon
- Rarely works. Usually need to download the PDF
- Aleksander
- Works well and speeds up my work for over a year now. Integrates seamlessly and I can't imagine going back to Previews app to see pdf now.
- Abdur Rahman Khan
- It doesn't open pdf files.
- Juarez da Pia
- Excellent tool very useful
- Rona Özel
- Doesn't Work
- Asia Glenn
- Doesn't work. It doesn't make sense that an app like this is required in the first place. Other web browsers like Safari and Firefox allow users to preview the pdfs before downloading. I guess I have to return to using those...this is a PIA.
- Val B
- Doesn't work
- Kris Tyler
- Still downloads the PDF first. Totally not what I need.
- MuNiNvPe
- i loved it
- Allen Watts
- Would not open a simple DOC file.
- E Ed
- best online pdf viewer
- Arttu Tenkilä
- Hasn't worked in a long time, just says "Preview is not available".
- Simas K
- does not work for tiff. nothing happens, tiff just gets downloaded as unrecognized file
- Paul Backus
- Doesn't work. Probably because it hasn't been updated in almost 2 years.
- Alex
- All it does is open the doc in html code THANKS GOOGLE
- tk
- does not launch ppt view in browser. However, it redirects it to powerpoint applicaiton - macuser
- Alex Itcus
- it works for PDF.
- Param
- Its really usefull tool, but one problem. What if I someday want to download a pdf file for offline use. Actually am unable to find a way to download a pdf while enabling this extension. I don't want to disable it first and then restart my browser every time to download a pdf.
- Keishawn Brown
- Doesn't work.. at all.
- Jan Fucik
- not working
- Sharon Thobois (62Luvtolive)
- Come On Now, Google. Making too much money on newer products to be bothered with this old App? Newer evolving tech products in advertizing makes more money? Why would such a Good and Reputable Company care in the beginning until all they can see is money. It was hard to read all their comments because They are all respectful and yet It still is not fixed, because it doesn't have Green $ signs in the Income Field. All this time I thought I was not doing something right. Please help Us use your applications which made you brillant.
- Rainbow Steel
- I can't get it to work!
- Rod
- You have to buy a subscription to use it at starting price of $ 6.00 per month. It does not allow printing, saving or emailing without signing up. For the once or twice a year use this is annoying. This was not known this until ready to save. It worked until trying to save or print
- Evan Van Orden
- Doesn't work at all. Fail
- Jim Goettsch
- Wouldn't open PDF files on Chrome w/o me having to download it. So switched to PDF Viewer.
- Dijon Beck
- Doesn't work
- Ben Gillies
- Including this extension causes the DOMSubtreeModified event to be attached to document.body which slows down DOM manipulations massively. Removing it (this extension) again sped up the visualisation that I'm working on by 50%. I'm pretty sure extensions shouldn't slow down websites quite so much.
- Hanan Mika Ouazan
- not working
- Jeff Griffin
- This extension is broke and has not worked for months. see my previous review below. This extension is great I often just want to print attachments without downloading them to my computer and this accomplishes that.
- Jimmy Wu
- Doesn't work.
- Joseph Tosey
- As a developer, it messes up my console by printing spurious errors. That makes my work more difficult.
- Jason Scofi
- worked flawless for PDF on chromebooks. Cannot verify for other documents
- Mike Teare
- Docx: 'no preview available', Xlsx: 'no preview available'. What sort of junk is this?
- Freya Szeremet
- Word documents are showing up as codes... Totally unusable.
- Andrew Kary
- Makes documents unusable, opens text files full of code in stead.
- Greg
- cant view files over 500kb...
- Aaron
- Straight up doesn't work.
- Kevin Murphy
- Doesn't open DOCX files.
- Anonymous
- Doesn't work!
- Nelo Monteiro
- serve
- محمد الهاشمي القرطبي
- the plugin works, here is the trick guys: you go to the link you want to open, you RIGHT CLICK on it, scroll down and click on (View File in New Tab) and it will open directly on the browser without asking you to download the file, i know it is a "painful" way to open files but it is still far better than being asked to download the file before you see it first.
- Olena Nikolsko-Rzhevska
- Terrible. Every time I try to open a pdf, it shows a bunch of lines of code. Every. single. time.