Open in PDF Reader

Send PDF links directly to your favorite PDF viewer like Adobe Acrobat Reader

What is Open in PDF Reader?

"Open in PDF Reader" is an Edge browser extension that offers an efficient way to view PDF files. It allows users to open PDF links directly in their preferred PDF viewer application. This extension simplifies the task of downloading and viewing PDFs, working seamlessly with most common PDF viewers. With features like opening PDFs from the right-click context menu and transferring already opened PDFs to an external viewer, it enhances your PDF viewing experience. Additionally, it includes safety features, like running the external executable with a delay, so your antivirus can validate the PDF file before opening.

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Add-on stats

By: Bermet

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Users: 97,863 ▲ 418

Rating: 3.50 (15)

Version: 0.3.4 (Last updated: 2024-11-12)

Creation date: 2021-07-25

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
contextMenus
notifications
nativeMessaging
downloads
activeTab
alarms

Size: 53.54K

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Ranking

# 445

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Add-on summary

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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:

User reviews

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Pros

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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.

Cons

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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Recent reviews

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by e46642, 2024-01-11

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by e38086, 2024-01-08

It does work, however the inability to download the pdf to a temporary file and open it from there, the way Firefox can, makes this app unusable for me. If it would at least give the option to choose a download location I could set up my own temporary file and use Windows Task Manager to occasionally delete the file then maybe I could work with it, but it gives no other option other than your default downloads file, which I do not want filling up with a bunch of pdf's.

by Jay, 2023-08-25

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