2024.10.22

semenkovich.com

Encourage PDFs to show in the browser instead of downloading. By Nick Semenkovich .

Latest Version

Version

2024.10.22

Update

October 17, 2024

Size

13.17KiB

Developer

semenkovich.com

Don't Download PDFs Extension

Annoyed by PDFs that download and save instead of just showing in the tab?

This extension encourages PDFs to show in the browser rather than downloading.

That's it. Nothing else.

======== Details ========

This works by setting the \"Content-Disposition: Inline\" header under these conditions:

- Content is displayed in the full window (main_frame)
AND

- The response contains \"Content-type: application/pdf\"
OR
- The response contains \"Content-type: application/octet-stream\" with a filename of \"*.pdf\"

Note that some sites use the \"download\" attribute in links (e.g. ) which we can't override, but you can right-click those PDFs and select \"Open Link in a New Tab\".

======== CODE ========
https://github.com/semenko/chrome-force-pdf-inline

Copyright 2014-2024 Nick Semenkovich

Released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "author": "Nick Semenkovich", "description": "Encourage PDFs to show in the browser instead of downloading. By Nick Semenkovich .", "manifest_version": 3, "background": { "service_worker": "service_worker.js" }, "name": "Don't Download PDFs", "permissions": [ "declarativeNetRequest", "declarativeNetRequestFeedback" ], "host_permissions": [\t"" ], "declarative_net_request": { "rule_resources": [{ "id": "ruleset", "enabled": true, "path": "ruleset.json" }] }, "icons": { "48": "icons/icon48.png", "128": "icons/icon128.png" }, "version": "2024.10.22"}

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User reviews

Amir (ID: 0000008eaa6c98b3) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 10/11/2022 All you need to not to save a PDF but to read it!

Hari Tharani (ID: 000000801c2a6acb) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 07/14/2020 not even opening very bad n not useful

Michael Richter (ID: 00000066e7e5cc16) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 02/21/2020 Exactly what I was looking for.

Chris Vydas (ID: 000000a1b7cc9ce4) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 11/20/2019 Did not work at all! Not working on pc and not working on mobile.

Ellen Winney (ID: 000000267b30345d) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 05/30/2019 Needed this for a website that insisted its PDFs be downloaded instead of just displayed inline. This extension did exactly what I needed, thanks.

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