1 How to Enable or Disable Chrome PDF Viewer2 How to Enable or Disable the Microsoft Edge PDF Viewer3 How to Enable or Disable the Firefox PDF Viewer4 How to Remove Password Protection from a PDF5 How to Insert a PDF into an Excel Spreadsheet
However, you also sacrifice more advanced functionality, such as PDF editing. Today we’re going to show you how to enable or disable the PDF viewer in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge so you can customize the experience to your liking. To do so, we just need to tell the browsers to download our PDFs rather than open them. This can be achieved quite easily in settings. In the case of Firefox, you can even tell it to open your PDF in your default PDF reader application as soon as it’s done downloading. Let’s get started with the tutorial:
How to Enable or Disable Chrome PDF Viewer
How to Enable or Disable the Microsoft Edge PDF Viewer
How to Enable or Disable the Firefox PDF Viewer
How to Remove Password Protection from a PDF
If you tried to edit your PDF only to run into a dreaded password prompt, you may want to check out our guide on how to remove password protection from a PDF. After following it, you should be able to regain access to most PDFs.
Selecting the “Download PDFs” option will save your PDF to your specified download folder and allow you to open it with your default app by clicking on the completed download in your browser. How to open a PDF in Chrome Alternatively, you can also have Chrome open the PDF instead of downloading it by choosing “Open PDFs in Chrome”.
We’ll be covering how to switch viewer or how to just download the PDF by modifying your Firefox settings:
However, the other two options are where it gets interesting. You can set Firefox to use your operating system’s default application or select “Use other…” to select a different app from the list.
How to Insert a PDF into an Excel Spreadsheet
Now that you have your PDF downloaded, you can also do things with it other than viewing…such as inserting it into an Excel spreadsheet. It’s a handy way to quickly reference the information you need or add a final report for sharing.
