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doc:appunti:android:chrome_disable_internal_pdf_viewer [2025/05/02 10:18] – created niccolodoc:appunti:android:chrome_disable_internal_pdf_viewer [2025/05/02 10:25] (current) niccolo
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-====== How to disable internal PDF viewer in Android Chrome ======+====== How to disable the internal PDF viewer in Android Chrome ======
  
-In recent versions of the Chrome app for Android (begin of 2025), you may find that tapping link pointing to a PDF document, will open the internal PDF viewer instead of your preffered app (mine is **[[https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.artifex.mupdf.viewer.app/|MuPDF viewer]]**). On the net you may find several recipes to disable that behaviour, but they are eventually outdated (they refer to the //Settings// => //Privacy and security// => //Site Settings// => //PDF documents//, which does not exist anymore).+In recent versions of the Chrome app for Android (begin of 2025), you may find that tapping link pointing to a PDF document, will open the internal PDF viewer instead of your preferred app (mine is **[[https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.artifex.mupdf.viewer.app/|MuPDF viewer]]**). On the net you may find several recipes to disable that behaviour, but they are eventually outdated (they refer to the //Settings// => //Privacy and security// => //Site Settings// => //PDF documents//, which does not exist anymore).
  
 Also the the advice to go to //Settings// => //Apps// => your PDF viewer => //Set as default// is useless. Also the the advice to go to //Settings// => //Apps// => your PDF viewer => //Set as default// is useless.
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 Then search for the **Open PDF Inline on Android** and **Open PDF Inline on Android pre-V** options and disable them both. Then search for the **Open PDF Inline on Android** and **Open PDF Inline on Android pre-V** options and disable them both.
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 +{{android-chrome-flags-open-pdf-inline.png?nolink&280|Android Chrome Open PDF Inline Flags}}
  
  
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