Chrome 57: How to Disable/Enable Chrome PDF Viewer?

Since the Plugins page has been removed in upcoming Chrome 57, you may find it difficult to manage PPAPI-based Flash and built-in PDF Viewer plugins, if you don’t know, they’ve been moved to content settings. If you want to disable/enable the Chrome PDF Viewer from version 57 onwards, you need to follow the below procedure.

Disabling or enabling Chrome PDF Viewer in Chrome 57+

1. Click on Chrome menu, select Settings

2. Scroll down and click on Advanced

3. Under Privacy & Security, click on Content Settings,

4. Click on PDF documents and check ‘Open PDFs using a different application’.

Done! Chrome Internal PDF Viewer has been disabled.

Note: Chrome blocks Flash by default. You can allows sites to run Flash or manually add sites that can run Flash by visiting Flash section in Content Settings.

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Venkat Eswarlu

Venkat is an independent technology journalist and the founder of Techdows. He has been covering web browsers, Windows, and software news since 2009. His exclusive scoops on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge features have been cited by Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, CNET, and other major publications.

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