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Make Chrome always open PDFs itself

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Mar 15, 202622773 views
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Problem

I'm looking for a way to make Google Chrome always open PDFs with its internal viewer when I click a link, as opposed to downloading it to the default location. It works with most URLs, but some servers set a special header to force the file to be downloaded ( , e.g. http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en…

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"Content-Disposition: attachment;"

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The "Redirector" answer was just what I was looking for, but that extension is no longer available. So I kept digging and found Modify Content-Type. It's working as I expected (PDFs open in the internal viewer despite Content-Disposition: attachment…

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