Chrome no longer opens up PDFs

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Wondering if anyone who has experienced this and know a fix.

When your download a pdf that gets opened on chrome, it's a blank page. This is only happening on my computer I have tested this on my laptop and it was okay.

I have gone to chrome://plugins to verify the settings are good.

The one thing I believe it's problem with the software is because 1 out of 5 times I can refresh my page and the pdf will load. There is nothing wrong with the server serving the pdf.

Is there a way where I can "repair" chrome?

lzc

Posted 2016-03-18T16:03:42.457

Reputation: 163

Do you have an example link to a PDF this happens with that we can test? – ode2k – 2016-03-18T16:21:06.727

@ode2k http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~oommen/Courses/COMP4106Winter16/BayesClassifiers.pdf

– lzc – 2016-03-18T16:21:51.750

What OS / Version are you using? – ode2k – 2016-03-18T16:29:11.570

I'm seeing precisely the same issue on version 79.0.3945.79 for Linux. pdfs only show up about 1 in 5 refreshes. Oddly, I can't reproduce the problem in an incognito window, even though I have all extensions disabled. Turning off hardware acceleration did not help. – Coquelicot – 2019-12-14T18:36:39.863

Answers

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Could be related to:

Chromium Issue 594343

Disable GPU Rendering (PC / Mac)

Chrome -> Settings --> Click the Show advanced settings... Link at the bottom

Chrome Settings

Advanced Settings

Hardware Acceleration Setting

Scroll to the bottom under the System section and uncheck the box to Use hardware acceleration when available

Then close your browser, reopen and try again.

Then try opening the PDF file again.

ode2k

Posted 2016-03-18T16:03:42.457

Reputation: 307

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Try to update chrome. The problem was known, and corrected in the version 46.0.2490.80m.

See this for more info :

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=543018

Antoine Orsoni

Posted 2016-03-18T16:03:42.457

Reputation: 101

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