Thursday, June 17, 2010

Latest Chrome brings sandboxed, auto-updated PDF support

With the latest Chrome version (developer channel for Windows and Mac for now: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel) Chrome provides native support for rendering PDF documents in a seamless, and more importantly, secure way: http://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/bringing-improved-pdf-support-to-google.html


According to the blogpost, PDF rendering will be contained within the security sandbox Chrome uses for web page rendering. Users will automatically receive the latest version of Chrome’s PDF support; they won’t have to worry about manually updating any plug-ins or programs.

The plug-in can be enabled by going to chrome://plugins/ and clicking on "Enable" for the "Chrome PDF Viewer" plug-in. While you are at it, I would recommend you disable any other PDF plugins.