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Google Makes Latest Chrome Build Open PDFs By Default

Posted by timothy on from the open-it-use-dynamite-if-necessary dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google is changing the way its browser handles PDF files, starting with the Chrome Canary channel. Citing security concerns, the company wants Chrome to open PDF files by default, bypassing any third-party programs such as Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader."

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  1. Re:Great by mbkennel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    | Because we love formats which are impossible to convert into any other format; which require complicated, ugly tools to perform even basic formatting,

    This is a feature, not a bug. It's not just a feature, it is THE feature.

    I'm very serious. Plenty of times an 'editable' PowerPoint is substantially garbled when it's opened up on a different version, or some Office configuration changed, or it's on somebody else's installation or it's 3 years old, or it needed an equation plugin, or the fonts are whatever...

    If I have an important presentation---"save as PDF" is essential. I want to be able to give away (and use) poorly-editable copies which Microsoft programs will NOT do anything to.

    That is an essential feature.

    | and because we desperately need a format which essentially displays graphics and text to require weekly updates to remove the latest batch of exploits.

    PDF isn't the problem. Adobe is that problem. MacOS and other software display PDF fine.