Chrome is Google’s web browser available on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. It is among the most popular web browsers due to its integration with Google, variety of extensions, ease of use, and more.
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.