Google Chrome won the support of PC users and later expanded its dominance to smartphones. This is already quite web surfing veteran, but they continue to develop it in Mountain View; the newest is a function that will read the content of the website out loud. Before the end of the year, the scoreboards were also redesigned with an interface suitable for the new time.

We can remove it from our Android mobile in case it does not convince us, but at the moment it continues to add new features to close one of its weak points. Chrome for Android is getting a PDF readerThis will allow us to say goodbye to third-party applications and even the integrated Drive reader.

Chrome + PDF: An affair from PC

If you usually use Google Chrome on a computer operating system such as Windows, this integrated PDF document reader. It is very useful to avoid installing more programs and see them directly without switching applications. However, the Google OS version of Chrome does not perform the same functionality.

In fact, the usual thing on Android – you may have noticed – is to open these documents with the PDF reader integrated into the Google Drive application. Although there are countless applications for this purpose on the Play Store, Google thought it was time for this. Chrome for mobile also has this feature.

This feature was noticed by user X, Leopeva64part of the new flags Chrome’s. This flag allows Chrome Open PDF files automatically as soon as it is downloaded. It was probably in Chrome Canary, the development version of the popular browser, and not in the stable version you are using on your mobile phone.

Specifically, this is what you should look for among them. flags To find the PDF reader:

Chrome://flags/#android-open-pdf-inline

As we said, Google Chrome will automatically display PDF documents. In other words: you won’t need to download them to internal storage of the device.

Considering that competitors such as Firefox already support opening documents, and Microsoft Edge is also supported thanks to its extensions. Google is a little latebut it will be of little consequence to users who use it on a daily basis.

It looks like the first preview version of Android 15, expected in the coming days, has enabled a new module with a PDF viewer. Perhaps it will be used by the browser itself to bring this functionality to all mobile phones. It is a different method compared to its computer counterpart, but equally useful.

via | Android Police

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