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Disable opening of PDF files in Chrome browser

After downloading PDF files in Chrome browser, if you click on the downloaded file that is shown at the bottom panel. Chrome opens that file in a new tab.

At times you may feel you just want to download and see it later in Adobe Reader instead. Here is the quick fix for it.

To disable this feature
In Chrome browser, Browse
chrome://plugins/

you can see different plugins there.
Here disable the Chrome PDF Viewer plugin and Adobe Reader plug in.

below is the screen after disable plugin

PDF files in Chrome browser

Now restart Chrome, and you can try download a PDF file. and It’ll open with Adobe Reader application if you click on the downloaded file.

Hope it helps somebody..

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