Don't Download PDFs
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Description from extension meta
Encourage PDFs to show in the browser instead of downloading. By Nick Semenkovich <[email protected]>.
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Description from store
Annoyed by PDFs that download and save instead of just showing in the tab?
This extension encourages PDFs to show in the browser rather than downloading.
That's it. Nothing else.
======== Details ========
This works by setting the "Content-Disposition: Inline" header under these conditions:
- Content is displayed in the full window (main_frame)
AND
- The response contains "Content-type: application/pdf"
OR
- The response contains "Content-type: application/octet-stream" with a filename of "*.pdf"
Note that some sites use the "download" attribute in links (e.g. <a href="" download>) which we can't override, but you can right-click those PDFs and select "Open Link in a New Tab".
======== CODE ========
https://github.com/semenko/chrome-force-pdf-inline
Copyright 2014-2024 Nick Semenkovich <[email protected]>
Released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.
Latest reviews
- Andrew Gilero
- I used to modify the content header to force PDFs to open instead of downloading but that stopped working when they disable Manifest V2 support. I found this after about 2 hours of trying various solution and it was a tremendous relief. Work as advertised for me. Version 139.0.7258.67 (Official Build) (64-bit)
- jk
- Used to work really well, though the latest update made the PDF detection really aggressive and it tries to render PDFs out of zip files as well. Could you fix this real quick?
- porg
- Good feature idea! Sadly a of 2024-03-21 the extension in it lates released version 2016.4.7 is not working anymore in the current Chrome 122.0.6261.129. Tried it on https://www.bmf.gv.at/services/publikationen/das-steuerbuch.html where the PDFs use "Content-Disposition: attachment" and enforcing PDF inline display fails, instead the PDFs just trigger a download.
- Amir
- All you need to not to save a PDF but to read it!
- Amir
- All you need to not to save a PDF but to read it!
- Hari Tharani
- not even opening very bad n not useful
- Hari Tharani
- not even opening very bad n not useful
- Michael Richter
- Exactly what I was looking for.
- Michael Richter
- Exactly what I was looking for.
- Chris Vydas
- Did not work at all! Not working on pc and not working on mobile.
- Chris Vydas
- Did not work at all! Not working on pc and not working on mobile.
- Ellen Winney
- Needed this for a website that insisted its PDFs be downloaded instead of just displayed inline. This extension did exactly what I needed, thanks.
- Ellen Winney
- Needed this for a website that insisted its PDFs be downloaded instead of just displayed inline. This extension did exactly what I needed, thanks.
- Tom Lomax
- Amazing, just the thing for perusing datasheets etc. Still working great in Apr 2019...
- Tom Lomax
- Amazing, just the thing for perusing datasheets etc. Still working great in Apr 2019...
- Brissa
- Does exactly what it says it will. Great extension!
- Brissa
- Does exactly what it says it will. Great extension!
- Jozef Mikušinec
- Sometimes fails, producing this warning: Warning: This extension failed to modify the response header "content-disposition" of a network request because the modification conflicted with another extension (Render PDFs Inline).
- Jozef Mikušinec
- Sometimes fails, producing this warning: Warning: This extension failed to modify the response header "content-disposition" of a network request because the modification conflicted with another extension (Render PDFs Inline).
- Anonymous
- Simple and efficient! An options' panel with a domain white/black list would be a cool addition. Also, the ability to pick other mime-types would be a big plus :)
- Anonymous
- Simple and efficient! An options' panel with a domain white/black list would be a cool addition. Also, the ability to pick other mime-types would be a big plus :)
- Zak Wilson
- Does what it says on the tin. It would be nice to be able to override content-disposition for other filetypes as well (I sometimes see it with images).
- Zak Wilson
- Does what it says on the tin. It would be nice to be able to override content-disposition for other filetypes as well (I sometimes see it with images).
- Şahin Karabıçak
- Çok memnunum
- Adam Geary
- Thank you for making this. I've been going through lots of spec sheets for various products lately and half will open inline, half will insist on downloading. I don't want 500 random PDFs sitting around in my downloads folder, so this extension solves that for me.
- Adam Geary
- Thank you for making this. I've been going through lots of spec sheets for various products lately and half will open inline, half will insist on downloading. I don't want 500 random PDFs sitting around in my downloads folder, so this extension solves that for me.
- Paul Combal
- It doesn't seem to always work.
- Paul Combal
- It doesn't seem to always work.