How to Download PDFs Instead of Previewing Them in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge
Apr 20, 2021, 8:30 am EDT
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When you click a PDF link in most browsers, the browser opens the PDF preview in a web browser window. To download a PDF and not preview it, you need to change a setting in your browser. This works in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.
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Get Chrome to Download Instead of Preview a PDF
Google Chrome uses its built-in PDF viewer to let you preview PDFs. You can turn this PDF viewer off, and Chrome will then prompt you to save your PDFs rather than preview them.