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====== 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 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 On the net you may find several recipes to disable that behaviour, but they are eventually outdated (they refer to the //Settings// =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.

The solution of the problem now requires to open in Chrome the special link:

<code>
chrome://flags/
</code>

Then search for the **Open PDF Inline on Android** and **Open PDF Inline on Android pre-V** options and disable them both.

{{android-chrome-flags-open-pdf-inline.png?nolink&280|Android Chrome Open PDF Inline Flags}}