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Google Chrome Beta update brings PDF viewer, App sync
You'll also find plenty of new experimental features on the Chrome Beta about:flags page. The big addition, however, is the arrival of the built-in PDF viewer. Chrome's viewer currently offers a major advantage over Adobe Reader when it comes to security -- sandboxing -- which helps prevent malicious PDFs from successfully attacking your computer.
Chrome's internal Flash plug-in has also been updated, as has the V8 JavaScript engine, and a ton of sync-related code has been added (doing a ctrl+f on the SVN log for sync will turn just about your whole scrollbar yellow). Beta users can now set an encryption passphrase to secure their data and apps are now included by default. Maybe that means we'll be able to download some from the Chrome Web Store soon...
Dev channel users should also have an update ready this morning -- which brings a new version of the internal Flash plug-in.
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Subscribe to commentsDavid LevineNov 5th 2010 7:54AM
Maybe I'm missing something, but the PDF viewer in Chrome as been available. Is it that they added new features?
DaveNov 5th 2010 9:38AM
I don't have chrome beta and seems to be running in my version. Also I had an extension that allowed me to open and save to google docs and this overides that which sucks.
Here's a novel idea. Maybe Goolge could allow you to save the PDF to Google Docs.
Shahrukh HasanNov 5th 2010 1:34PM
Here is a Chrome Extension which lets you see pdf or ppt files in browser and you can save then to google docs - check it out - https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nnbmlagghjjcbdhgmkedmbmedengocbn
João F.Nov 5th 2010 11:23AM
For anyone who doesn't want the built-in reader, you can just disable the "Chrome PDF Viewer" plug-in under about:plugins
lehenryjrNov 5th 2010 11:57AM
I believe this is a good idea for a browser, but I wonder how other PDF viewer programs will feel about Chrome attempting to take some of their thunder%u2026 As if they've any choice in the matter. In situations like this, Google is banking on people NOT wanting to mess with settings/options.
That's where Microsoft and Google are similar%u2026
Until next time,
Larry Henry