

Head to chrome://plugins/ in Chrome, this will bring up the plugins page. Here is how, Change Default PDF Viewer in Chrome You can change the default built-in PDF viewer in Chrome or Firefox. Chrome and Firefox have already implemented its own PDF render engine within the browser, hence, such render does not support Adobe’s special interactive PDFs. With that, you need Adobe PDF reader to view them and save those fillable PDF forms. The default PDF Viewer can render pretty much all the PDF out there except … interactive PDF forms. You can jump to a page, rotate files, and view the PDF as a presentation.Up until recently, I found no need to change the default PDF Viewer in Chrome or Firefox. There’s an arrow button next to the download button which reveals more options for navigating and viewing the file. Once you’ve annotated a PDF, click the download button and select how you want to save the file. It’s also set to be the default PDF viewer for Chrome but you can disable it from the extension’s settings. The extension automatically adds your initials to comments or text that you add. For highlight and text functions, you get to select the color from a choice of nine basic ones. The buttons on the right let you add a comment, a text box, underline text, high light text, and strike it out. A navigation panel can be opened on the left from a button just next to the zoom controls on the top bar. The PDF viewer itself is well designed the file is centre stage with annotating and editing tools in a bar on the right, and open, download, and zoom buttons in the top bar. To open a PDF file from a link, right click it and select ‘Open with Notable PDF’ from the context menu. Alternatively, you can drag & drop a PDF from your desktop on to the browser window to open it with Notable PDF. You can then import a PDF file from one of the two cloud drives. You need an account to use Notable PDF or you can connect using either Google Drive or your Box account. The extension can open PDF files from the desktop, from a link on a web page, and from Google Drive and Box. Notable PDF viewer lets you annotate PDFs, add comments, highlight text, and save the final annotated file in both Text and PDF format. Notable PDF is a Chrome extension that puts a more feature rich PDF viewer in your browser. Now, past that novelty, browsers are not the most impressive PDF viewers you have your normal zoom in/out functions, printing, and saving but that’s it.

Browsers at the very least they let you open a PDF and read it and that will always be better than saving it to your desktop and using a desktop application to view it.
