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Overshadowed by the introduction of extension sync in today's Google Chrome developer channel update was another important feature which has been in the works for some time. The same Google and Adobe collaboration which led to the introduction of Chrome's internal Flash plug-in has finally resulted in an internal plug-in for displaying PDF files as well.
Neither internal Flash or internal PDF rely upon the venerable old NPAPI system. The hope is that this new architecture will provide a more modern, secure way for browsers and plug-ins to interact. PDFs you view with the internal plug-in will also be safely tucked away in Chrome's sandbox, preventing any malicious activity from damaging your operating system.
If you're running the dev channel, here's what you have to do to turn on the internal PDF viewer:
Neither internal Flash or internal PDF rely upon the venerable old NPAPI system. The hope is that this new architecture will provide a more modern, secure way for browsers and plug-ins to interact. PDFs you view with the internal plug-in will also be safely tucked away in Chrome's sandbox, preventing any malicious activity from damaging your operating system.
If you're running the dev channel, here's what you have to do to turn on the internal PDF viewer:
- enter chrome:plugins in your Omnibar
- scroll down to the entry for Chrome PDF Viewer
- click the enable link, and you're good to go.
My advice: give it a try, but stick to using the Google Docs Viewer for now.
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Subscribe to commentsSaint SeminoleJun 18th 2010 12:22AM
I'm waiting for Chrome to give me the choice as to how to open PDF files. Currently, it defaults to Adobe, even though another app is my default PDF reader. In other browsers, I'm given a choice. With Chrome, I have to remember to download and save the PDF first, so I can open it in my preferred reader... It's frustrating.
Jayayess1190Jun 18th 2010 12:31AM
Using my synaptics touchpad, zooming works fine. Trying to go down hundred page documents will be hard, but this plugin is really nice.
stinlen56Jun 18th 2010 2:54AM
more bloat, less choice, all for the sake of "stability". Once chrome turns into the hog it is becoming, people will remember why they liked firefox originally (hint: modularity) and chrome will have lost its only advantage as far as the end user is concerned.
msarchetJun 19th 2010 11:08AM
you can zoom by pressing control and scrolling the mouse wheel, scrolling seems to be working fine with the mouse wheel as well.
source document I used http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf