Google Chrome is fast becoming my browser of choice, but it has a few annoyances which stops me completely dumping the once-excellent but now bloated Firefox.
One of these has been how Chrome handles links to PDFs. Upon clicking them, the browser displays the PDF in its own reader. Whilst this is quick, the in-built reader is feature limited and doesn’t behave in the way I have come to expect a PDF reader to.
You can force Chrome to open PDFs in your default PDF reader (typically Adobe Reader) by following these steps:
- Click the spanner button and select ‘Options’
- Go ‘Under the hood’ or ‘Under the bonnet’
- Select ‘Content Settings’
- In the ‘Plug-ins’ section, click the ‘Disable individual plug-ins…’ link
- Look for ‘Chrome PDF Viewer’ in the list, and ‘Disable’ it.
Next time you click a link to a PDF, it will download the file so you can view it as you would normally 
Recently Internet Explorer 6 passed the grand age of 9, having first been thrust upon an unsuspecting world in 2001.
Almost inevitably, this time of year brings Web designers to ask “What is your New Year Resolution?“.