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Lately when I download a PDF in Chrome and click the downloaded file in the bar at the bottom, it opens in chrome. I would like it to open in adobe as default, since I download mostly files with comments or stuff Chrome doesn't support anyway. I have seen this, but it makes chrome download all files and open them in Adobe.

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So what I want is: if I click a random PDF, it should open in the chrome browser, if I click a downloaded file from the bar at the bottom or from chrome://downloads it should open the file in Adobe. (Just as it used to be two weeks ago). Is that still possible?

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FYI for others: if you're okay with the Chrome PDF viewer, but want only downloaded PDFs to open in your external PDF viewer (Adobe Acrobat, Foxit Reader, etc.), you don't need to disable the Chrome PDF Viewer.

Always open PDFs using your system's viewer

Simply click the arrow next to a PDF download and select the option to use the system viewer.

Turn off auto-open of PDFs in the system viewer

UPDATE 6/7/2017

As of Chrome version 59, the option below doesn't exist in Settings. I'll leave these instructions, because if they ever add it back it'll probably be in the same place.

1. Click on the Chrome Menu icon
2. Click on
3. Scroll down and click
4. Scroll down to Downloads. If you have enabled any file types to open using the system viewer, you'll see a button to Clear auto-opening settings. Clicking this will reset the settings for all file types.

More info

Relevant SuperUser discussion here: How to automatically open 'saved' pdfs in system viewer on chrome?

You should try this:

1. Open Chrome.
2. Type chrome://plugins/ in the address bar, hit enter.
3. Browse the list for Adobe PDF viewer or Adobe reader (and chrome pdf viewer)
4. Disable both (although disabling adobe reader would work alone.)

Hope this helps.

In Chrome, type chrome://plugins/
Find the Chrome PDF Viewer and click Disable
From your browser, click a PDF file; it should show at the bottom as a downloaded file.
Click the arrow next to the downloaded file, and choose Always open files of this type(You may need to manually click Open on any recent files you want to view, otherwise..)
The next time you click a PDF file, it should open however your computer is configured to open PDF files. If that method is via Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat (standard, pro), then that should meet the need you expressed in your question.

This should solve the problem!

PS:

1- Instead of 1 & 2, you can navigate to: chrome://settings/content

2- You can click on the file name's small (upside) arrow in the 'Downloads bar' at the bottom, and, click on 'Always open with system viewer'. However, this works only for this downloaded file, not other downloads (it should be a bug though)!

3- After doing the above three steps, when you click on a file in the download bar, it first opens another tab and closes it quickly (another bug, which is a little annoying)! But then opens the file in your PDF viewer anyway.

• Step 1: Choose 'File' > 'Print'. • Step 2: Click on 'Save as Adobe PDF'. Choose Adobe PDF in the printer popup menu on your Mac system. A dialog box will open and you'll have to select either Adobe PDF or another PDF reader. You can do this through the following steps.

4- Previously you could control this from chrome://plugins which is now removed from Chrome (57 and later versions). So you just ignore what you found on the web about chrome://plugins.

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Other browsers have had it for years, but Chrome is finally adding a “Reader mode” that strips down an online article to its most essential parts—images and text—to make it easier to read. The new feature, dubbed Distill, is currently a work in progress but is still worth trying out for full-time Chrome users.

Here’s how I enabled the Distill feature in Windows 8.1.

First, you’ll need to have Chrome pinned to your taskbar—a desktop shortcut would also work. If you haven’t pinned Chrome to your taskbar open Chrome, right-click the program’s icon and select “Pin this program to the taskbar.”

Now shut down Chrome completely by opening up your system tray (the upward facing arrow on the far right of the taskbar), right-clicking the Chrome icon, and selecting Exit.

Next, right-click the big Chrome icon in the taskbar and highlight Google Chrome. (Don't click it yet!) It should be the third choice from the bottom. With the selection highlighted, right-click again and select Properties, as shown here.

Still with me? Good. That was the hard part.

A properties window is now open with the Shortcut tab selected. Disk reader for mac usb c. Under that tab you should see a label that says Target: and then a text-entry box. In the text entry box place your cursor after the last quotation mark, create a space, and then type in the following:

--enable-dom-distiller

Make sure you type that in exactly, with two dashes at the beginning. You can cut-and-paste the above text into the field if you'd like.

Next click Apply and then OK.

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You’re done. It may seem like a lot of steps, but it only takes a few seconds.

Now open up Chrome and click the “hamburger” menu icon on the upper right side.There should be a new option that says “Distill page.” Select “Distill” when you’re viewing an article online and reading gets a whole lot easier.

The new feature is pretty bare bones right now and doesn’t include anything fancy like the ability to save articles to a “read later” list.

If you’re a Chrome user, but setting up distill mode is too much work, there are alternatives. Evernote fans can install an extension from the Chrome Web Store called Clearly that does the same thing and even lets you save stripped down articles to Evernote.

The modern UI (read: Metro) version of Internet Explorer 11 also comes with a reading mode button. The desktop version of IE does not contain the same feature, however, and IE has to be your default browser before you can access the modern UI version in Windows 8 and 8.1.

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