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Don't Download PDFs

Encourage PDFs to show in the browser instead of downloading. By Nick Semenkovich <[email protected]>.

Users2KCurrent public install base
Rating4.3Store average score
Reviews24Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
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Version2024.10.22
ManifestV3
Size13.17KiB
Languages1English
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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)

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Store average score4.3Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average4.0Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text18Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews24Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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HexEdited2026年7月5日
5

Good. Working as of July 5th 2026.

Version 2024.10.22Language en
amonguslover542026年6月17日
5

works perfectly, thank you

Version 2024.10.22Language en
Andrew Gilero2025年8月11日
5

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)

Version 2024.10.22Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
jk2024年10月6日
4

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?

Version 2024.10.19Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
porg2024年3月21日
1

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.

Version 2016.4.7Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Amir2022年10月11日
5

All you need to not to save a PDF but to read it!

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Hari Tharani2020年7月14日
1

not even opening very bad n not useful

Language en
1 helpful · 5 not helpful
Michael Richter2020年2月21日
5

Exactly what I was looking for.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Chris Vydas2019年11月20日
1

Did not work at all! Not working on pc and not working on mobile.

Language en
0 helpful · 3 not helpful
Ellen Winney2019年5月30日
5

Needed this for a website that insisted its PDFs be downloaded instead of just displayed inline. This extension did exactly what I needed, thanks.

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful