To make Firefox automatically download PDF files, select Save File from the drop-down menu.If you don’t see any of these identifiers after your version number, you’re running the stable version of chrome.
In the Applications section (under the Files and Applications heading), select the Portable Document File (PDF) entry in the Content Type column, and click the down arrow icon to the right.
On the left side of the screen, make sure the General option is selected.
Select from the drop-down menu that appears.
Click the icon in the upper-right corner of the browser window.
If you're using Firefox, follow these steps. Chrome downloads a PDF when the toggle switch is set to On and displays a PDF in the browser when set to Off.
Next to Download PDF files instead of automatically opening them in Chrome, click the toggle switch to set to the On or Off position.
Scroll down the Site Settings screen to find and click the PDF documents option.
On the Settings window, under Privacy and security, click the Site Settings option.
Select Settings from the drop-down menu that appears.
Click the icon in the top-right corner of the browser window.
To change how Google Chrome treats PDF files in the browser, follow the steps below. If you do not see the save icon, move your mouse towards the bottom of the browser window, and a black bar should appear, where the save icon is located.īy default, Google Chrome opens a PDF file in the browser window instead of saving it to the downloads folder.
To save (download) the PDF, click the icon, located near the bottom of the browser window.
Browse to the PDF you'd like to view or download and click it.
Follow these steps to view or download a PDF with Internet Explorer. However, downloading a PDF is still possible. Similar to Microsoft Edge Legacy, Internet Explorer displays PDF files by default, instead of offering to download them for you.
To save (download) the PDF, click the icon, located near the top-right corner of the browser window.
The file should automatically open in the browser window.
Browse to the PDF file you'd like to view or download and click it.
Open the Microsoft Edge Legacy browser.
However, Edge Legacy does give you the option to save a PDF after it opens in the browser. Microsoft Edge Legacy does not download PDF files by default and this setting cannot be changed.