Always open PDFs using your system’s viewer

Always open PDFs using your system’s viewer

Open the download list popup, right click on a PDF download from the list and select the option to Always open with the system viewer.

This works if want only downloaded PDFs to open in your external PDF viewer (Adobe Acrobat, Foxit Reader, etc.), you don’t need to disable the Chrome PDF Viewer.

Turn off auto-open of PDFs in the system viewer

UPDATE 6/7/2017

As of Chrome version 59, the option below no longer exists in Settings. I’ll leave these instructions, because if they ever add it back it’ll probably be in the same place.

1. Click on the Chrome Menu icon 
2. Click on 
3. Scroll down and click 
4. Scroll down to Downloads. If you have enabled any file types to open using the system viewer, you’ll see a button to Clear auto-opening settings. Clicking this will reset the settings for all file types.

Simon Guetta

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