Browswer settings how to view a pdf without downloading

Asked 9 years, 6 months ago. Active 6 years, 9 months ago. Viewed 17k times. Improve this question. Xtreme Xtreme 1, 7 7 gold badges 25 25 silver badges 52 52 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Thanks but the problem is that its working good in Chrome and Firefox but not so well in Internet Explorer and Safari. Have not tried Opera.

The Overflow Blog. There were particularly two reasons due to which he avoided downloading documents before going through them. Firstly, it was necessary to make sure that the material consisted of the required information. Secondly, unnecessarily downloading all documents caused trouble in data storage and management.

Thus, the student was keen on knowing a way that would customize his Chrome browser to only open the documents and later let him choose whether to proceed with downloading them or not. Most web browsers are programmed by default to open Portable Document Formats for display and reading purpose. Later, the user is provided with a page change, zoom, print, and saving option on the document screen. However, that is not the case with Google Chrome sometimes.

However, downloading a PDF is still possible. By default, Google Chrome opens a PDF file in the browser window instead of saving it to the downloads folder. To have PDF files open in the browser again, repeat these steps and select the Preview in Firefox option or Use other option to choose another program. By default, Opera opens a PDF file in the browser window instead of saving it to the downloads folder.