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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.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago

Wow! Amazing! My dreams have come true.

I will continue to never use chrome.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Do really chrome on Android, up to this point, never had PDF support?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same reaction here... It shows that for mobile browser Mozilla is more serious about it. Maybe being installed by default and their hegemony on desktop make Google more complacent...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Android's firefox PDF viewer is very laggy though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It just tries to use drive instead

[–] ocassionallyaduck 12 points 1 month ago

Fuck Google chrome.

[–] hypertown 8 points 1 month ago

Firefox supports it for quite a while lol

[–] lazycouchpotato 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Firefox works fine for me so I'll stick to it. Chrome will have annotation support for those that need it though.

Google also had a lightweight PDF reader decoupled from Google Drive but it looks like it's no longer available: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.pdfviewer

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210128180501/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.pdfviewer

[–] Osiris 1 points 1 month ago

If you need a lightweight pdf viewer with no frills, muPdf on Fdroid is perfectly cromulent

[–] jacktherippah 0 points 1 month ago

Y'all are so cynical around here geez.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Even my friend faridin will fuck Google chrome.