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 ====== How to disable the internal PDF viewer in Android Chrome ====== ====== How to disable the internal PDF viewer in Android Chrome ======
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 +:-( **NOTICE**: This hack does not work anymore (version 138.0.7294.157), the options below are no longer available.
  
 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 On the net you may find several recipes to disable that behaviour, but they are eventually outdated (they refer to the //Settings// =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). 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 On the net you may find several recipes to disable that behaviour, but they are eventually outdated (they refer to the //Settings// =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).
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