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This bug only applies to people who have disabled Chrome's built-in PDF reader, if I'm reading it right. (And pdfium is probably the world's best in-browser PDF reader; it works reliably, it's well-sandboxed, and it's free software despite being based on the proprietary/commercial Foxit codebase.)

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I don't think so. I have the Chrome PDF reader enabled on a Mac using Sierra and sometimes it just downloads the PDF and opens it in Preview.

If the web server throws a "Content-Disposition: attachment" header with it, you will download the file, no matter the mime type or file extension.

Someone should probably say that on the bug report, then! :) Especially if it happens with Chrome stable.

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