Open in PDF Reader
What is Open in PDF Reader?
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The "Open in PDF viewer" extension opens PDF files directly in your favorite external PDF viewer application. To use the extension, right-click on a PDF link and select the "Open in PDF viewer" item. The extension downloads the PDF file in your default downloads directory and then executes the external command to open the downloaded file with the default PDF viewer (e.g. Adobe Acrobat Reader or FoxIt PDF reader).
Note that to execute an OS-level command, you need to install a native client. Native client installation guide appears on the first usage.
Features:
- Open PDF files from right-click context menu
- Transfer already opened PDF files to the external PDF viewer by pressing the browser's action button
- Detect PDF links and open them with left-click
- Open the external PDF viewer with a user-defined delay
- Supports most common PDF viewers
Change Logs: 0.1.1: It is now possible to define left-click open in default PDF reader from the options page. If this mode is enabled, the extension blocks the default action when a link with the PDF mime type is the target. 0.1.2:
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- 终于找到一个可以免费看谷歌和youtube的扩展了
- It does It's Job
- Makes no sense to have to right click and select anything. A standard click should cause it to open in my PDF Reader program.
- the inability to download the pdf to a temporary file and open it from there
- It copies the file into the user's downloads folder.
- Note that this requires you to do extra steps after installing, including running an install.bat file
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- downloads folder
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Open in PDF Reader may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing.
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Open in PDF Reader has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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