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To disable the built-in viewer, enter chrome. Scroll up to the "Adobe Reader" section and click "Enable."Īfter following those steps, you should be able to view PDFs within library databases-without even having to restart your browser!įor more information about the Chrome PDF viewer plugin, see the links below. Google Chrome has a built-in PDF viewer enabled by default, which opens the file directly in your browser window.Scroll down to the "Chrome PDF Viewer" section and click "Disable.".Type chrome://plugins/ into the location bar within Chrome.However, you can get around this problem by disabling the Chrome PDF viewer and enabling the Adobe viewer. This appears to be a problem only with Google Chrome embedded PDFs in the library's databases will work with the Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers. I contacted EBSCOhost technical support, and it turns out that Google Chrome uses its own special PDF viewer plugin that is incompatible with many of our databases. Unfortunately, you dont have access to all of the same tools you can use in apps like Adobe Reader. Load chrome://flags/ in the browsers address bar. The update introduces a table of content, two-page view option, quick jump support, and more. It is currently available behind a flag in all recent versions of the web browser, including Chrome Stable. If you need help locating full text articles, please see the "How to Request Books and Articles" LibGuide, as well as the "Finding Full Text Articles" video. Google Chromes built-in PDF viewer can make opening PDFs super-quick. The Chrome PDF viewer update will change that. Note: this information addresses a technical problem encountered when using Google Chrome.