Chrome open file instead of download

Also of note is that the extension requires you to manually point it to your installation of Chrome. We weren't fond of the interface, either. To use the plug-in, you must either use the context menu or customize a toolbar with a Chrome button on your own. There was no Menubar option for accessing the add-on's options, either. For developers who need to switch quickly between browsers or users who are playing around with Chrome, Open in Google Chrome should prove useful.

Ashwin Ramesh hehe that's what I do when I want to "Open" them in Chrome : Oron PDF and Flash are special cases since they are handled internally by Chrome but you can override that to use 3rd party plug-ins or applications. Generally however, I don't believe there's an option for that in Chrome. I really like this feature - it means that opening the file is still quite easy, and I get to keep the downloaded file in a convenient location.

This PDF plugin is a default plug in it has. That helped! Bruce Epper That's unusual. Are you using an extension that is causing this behavior? Forget pdf files.. So what is happening right now, is Chrome is using the settings that are going to allow you to preview any kind of item. So you just click on a link and it opens it. So, to get to that, all we have to do is in Chrome, we get to our settings.

To get to settings go to the three little drop down and you go down to Settings, third from the bottom right there. Then click on Advanced, and downloads. That is the option we want to go and have cleared. Or you can click show in folder. Show in folder is great because it can show you where everything is downloaded to, and not only that, you can be able to make sure if you did download something one, two, three times whoops!

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Your Settings link for Chrome can be found here. And if you need additional support, Chrome has a help menu and search feature here. Thanks for searching for "My file automatically opens instead of saving when I download in Chrome". Is there a Google version of PowerPoint? PowerPoint Templates. PowerPoint Animations. Presentation Clipart. Video Backgrounds. Custom Graphics. Background Music. SlideClips Video Maker. View Transcript. By: Art Holden. Art Holden has been involved in presentation and animation graphic content since He had the pleasure of creating one of the very first animation websites on the internet, Animation Factory.

Improve this question. Donald Duck 7, 19 19 gold badges 66 66 silver badges 86 86 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Now the file type will always OPEN using your default program. Improve this answer. Danny B Danny B 7 7 silver badges 3 3 bronze badges. This won't prevent you from downloading the file. It simply opens automatically a downloaded file. This doesn't quite answer the question because the question wants to prevent downloading.

This does not prevent downloading, it just automatically opens the downloaded file. On Windows, this opens the file in Notepad. Would like to know how to read "any. I agree with Larry. This does not prevent downloading and so does not answer the question.

Guest's answer below does. Great question. It can be achieved via an extension: For Chrome, load undisposition If the file loading is ASCII then colour coding may be desirable, that can be done via the Syntaxtic extension btw, for Firefox load the InlineDisposition add-on.