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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By: Bermet

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Users: 79,692 ▲ 1.25K

Rating: 3.30 (12)

Version: 0.3.2 (Last updated: 2022-12-14)

Creation date: 2021-07-25

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
contextMenus
notifications
nativeMessaging
downloads
activeTab
alarms

Size: 49.23K

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

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Open in PDF Reader (v0.3.2)

3.51 (49) 112,861

Not available on Firefox

ChromeStats Rank

# 397

Other rankings

#36 in antivirus keyword

#63 in command keyword ▲ 2

#65 in define keyword

#70 in viewer keyword ▼ 1

#76 in transfer keyword ▲ 4

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Summary

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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User reviews

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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by Wang,, 2023-01-03

It copies the file into the user's downloads folder. The whole reason we need it is for users to edit PDFs and fill and sign forms. If they're editing a local copy, changes they make won't be copied up to the original location. This is not at all useful for us.

by Karla, 2021-10-18

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Safety

Risk impact

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.