PDF Forcedownload Blocker PDF Forcedownload Blocker

Productivity
Version: 0.3
Last Update: 2013-08-11

Overview

PDF Forcedownload Blocker is a Chrome extension developed by brenton.a.milne. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of PDF Forcedownload Blocker is 0.3, updated on 2013-08-11.
2,000+ users have installed this extension. 38 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .

This extension prevents webservers from forcing pdfs to download rather than open in browser

Many websites will attempt to force you to download linked PDF files, rather than handle them as per your preferences. (By default, your preferences are set to open them in-browser with Chrome's PDF plugin).

This extension blocks two common ways of forcing your browser to download PDF files, allowing you to handle them consistently and as you choose.

WARNING, USE AT OWN RISK:
Some websites load pdfs into invisible elements for download, causing them not to be seen at all when this extension is enabled. Unfortunately I can't find a good solution for this :(
Most commonly where this is encountered (eg on google docs), the pdf is linked with a name not corresponding to it's filename. To this end the extension now ignores links that don't have ".pdf" in them.

I wrote this app for myself and my friends at uni, to combat university pdfs being linked with forced download. I don't really know much Javascript/HTTP, so no guarantees :)

Rating

38 ratings

Total Installs

2,000+

Information

Last Update

2013-08-11

Current Version

0.3

Size

2.99KiB

Author

brenton.a.milne

Website

None

Category

Productivity

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avatar Christoph Thiede
2022-03-30

This sounds very promising, but it doesn't seem to work for GitHub releases such as this one: https://github.com/LinqLover/sonyx/releases/download/v0.2/sonyx-study-final.pdf

avatar M. W.
2022-03-07

Works as described! For those who say it doesn't: Make sure your default browser behaviour is also set to open PDFs instead of downloading them as this blocker only sets forcedownload=0. (For Chrome: Settings Security and privacy Site settings Additional content settings PDF documents)

avatar Jay Bingham
2021-12-07

It did not work for me on the web page where I tried it; the link still forces a download. The URL that I clicked does not contain PDF in it instead it has this string at the end: AttachmentViewer.ashx?AttachmentID=57723&ItemID=35671, which may mean that the extension will not detect that a PDF is is being forced to download, I don't know. I do know that if it does not work or only works in limited cases it is of little use to me.

avatar Yue Shi
2021-05-23

挺好用的

avatar sc
2020-11-26

It worked for me only if I open the links in a new tab. I solved this with a shortcut (clicking the links with middle touchpad button for opening new tabs).