Android users can currently open PDFs on Google Chrome for desktop using the Chrome PDF Viewer plug-in, while the mobile version redirects to the Google Drive PDF viewer or requires the Google PDF ...

This is especially true of PDF files since Chrome can't open them natively and thus hands them over to other applications, the default being Google Drive's PDF viewer.

Google Chrome for Android can finally open PDF files on its own without needing a third-party app, and you can try this feature now.

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 ...